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Varsity

/ˈvɑː.sɪ.ti/

University

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noun
  1. 1

    University

  2. 2

    The principal sports team representing an institution (usually a high school, college, or university.)

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first teamnoun(sports) The first-choice lineup of players in a team who start the game.

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first teamnoun(sports) The first-choice lineup of players in a team who start the game.
universitynounAn institution of higher education that provides facilities for teaching, research, and the conferral of academic degrees across undergraduate, graduate, and often professional levels.
collegenoun(chiefly US) An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
president-electnoun(sum of parts) A person who has been elected to a presidency but has not yet been inducted into office.
goodnoun(uncountable) The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
academicnounA senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
teamnounAny group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
public ivynoun(US, education, informal) A public university that has the academic quality or prestige of an Ivy League university.
honornoun(uncountable) Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful).
merit badge collegenounSynonym of merit badge university.
full bluenounSporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for the highest level of sporting achievement, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England; contrasted with half blue.
laureatenoun(dated) One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.
honor rollnoun(US, education) A list of high-achieving students at a university or college.
great gonoun(UK, university slang, dated) The final examination for a degree.
valedictoriannoun(US, Canada, properly) The individual in a graduating class who delivers the farewell or valedictory address, often the person who graduates with the highest grades.
higher educationnounEducation at a university level or beyond.
valedictverbTo farewell; to make a valediction or parting gesture.
firstPreceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
victor ludorumnoun(UK, sports) The overall champion in a sports contest, typically at a public school
aula magnanounA great hall or large classroom used for special occasions at a university.

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