residential college

noun

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The days of the storied four-year residential college experience—filled with dorm living and fraternity keggers—are fading fast. Arne Duncan, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2010 Set in a residential college for young disabled students, the series is currently available on BBC iPlayer. Aside from advising Channel 4, Edgar also sits on the disability roundtable for the BFI which advocates for better representation of disabled people behind the camera. Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 23 Oct. 2023 The firm has won competitions and stacked up commissions: to plan a mini-city at Sunnyside Yard, design a residential college at Princeton, overhaul the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and produce the next generation of air-traffic control towers. Curbed, 27 Sep. 2023 In 2017, Yale renamed a residential college that had been named after South Carolina senator and slavery defender John C. Calhoun. Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023 See all Example Sentences for residential college 

Word History

First Known Use

1991, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of residential college was in 1991

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“Residential college.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/residential%20college. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.

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