Noun

(uncountable) The quality of being organized.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}

(uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.

(countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.

(countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.

(baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.

(in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.

College''' of Cardinals'', '''''College of Surgeons

(politics) An electoral college.

An academic institution.

An institution of higher education.

(US) An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.

(attributively, chiefly, US) Attendance at an institution of higher education.

These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.

(Canada) A postsecondary institution that does not award bachelor's degrees, instead offering vocational training and/or associate's degrees.

(chiefly, UK) A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.

Pembroke College''', Cambridge''; ''Balliol '''College''', Oxford''; ''University '''College , London

(US, New Zealand) A specialized division of a university.

College of Engineering

(UK, in the names of private schools) A secondary school.

Eton College

(UK) An institution of further education at an intermediate level (in the UK, typically teaching those aged 16 to 19); sixth form.

(New Zealand) A high school or secondary school.

(UK) An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).

(Australia) A residential hall associated with a university, which may be independent or have its own tutors but is not involved in teaching.