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(1):

(n.) An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property.

(2):

(n.) The universe; the whole.

(3):

(n.) An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'University'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​u/university.html. 1828.
 
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