universities

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of university.
  university

  noun

  an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.

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universities

Bollinger in 2003, upheld colleges and universities engaging in affirmative action, with Justice O’Connor writing an opinion.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

The statue was dismantled and removed from its long-time plinth at the University of Hong Kong in late 2021, and other local universities followed suit with similar objects.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

“Whether it’s business, universities, law firms, universities, religious organizations, or any other civil society organization,” Grumbach says, “it’s clear that resisting in a coordinated way is more viable than going it alone.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Even as state public records disclose some foreign donor identities, New York universities have attracted substantial foreign gifts and contracts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Yet these former child soldiers, rescued from their armies, had mostly recovered and been widely embraced at American colleges and universities, where many of them had thrived.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Related Words

• academy
• institution
• school