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university | folkstyle |

As a noun university

is institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.

As an adjective folkstyle is

(us|sports) being a style of amateur wrestling practised at collegiate and university level in the united states; the ultimate goal is to pin the opponent to the mat, and the legs can be used in offense and defense.

university

Noun

(universities)
  • Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.
  • * 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
  • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

    Usage notes

    * In the United States, institutions calling themselves universities are generally relatively large (compared to colleges), and offer postgraduate degrees in addition to undergraduate degrees. In other countries, this distinction is not made and any degree-granting institution is called a university. * In the United States, students will sometimes say that they go to "the university" or to "a university", but they are far more likely to say they are going "to college". In the UK, students go to "university", without the article. In Canada, students go "to university" (also without the article) if they are attending a school that grants bachelor's or postgraduate degrees.

    Synonyms

    * uni * academy * institute * college * varsity

    Hypernyms

    * school * institution

    Derived terms

    * university of technology * technical university * technological university * varsity

    See also

    * Wikiversity ----

    folkstyle

    English

    Adjective

    (-) (wikipedia folkstyle)
  • (US, sports) Being a style of amateur wrestling practised at collegiate and university level in the United States; the ultimate goal is to pin the opponent to the mat, and the legs can be used in offense and defense.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 3, author=The Associated Press, title=A U.S. College Wrestler Sees a World of Possibility, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=But there are differences in the scoring and technique between the folkstyle wrestling in college, and the freestyle at the Olympics and the world championships. }}