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Noun university has 3 senses
- university - the body of faculty and students at a university
--1 is a kind of body
--1 is a part of academia, academe
--1 has members: graduate school, grad school
--1 has particulars: varsity
- university - establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching
--2 is a kind of establishment
--2 has particulars: | Brown University, Brown; Cambridge University, Cambridge; Carnegie-Mellon University; city university; Columbia University, Columbia; Cooper Union, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Cornell University; Duke University; Harvard University, Harvard; Johns Hopkins; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT; Ohio State University; Oxbridge; Oxford University, Oxford; Paris University, University of Paris, Sorbonne; Princeton University, Princeton; redbrick university; Stanford University, Stanford; University of California at Berkeley; University of Chicago; University of Michigan; University of Nebraska; University of North Carolina; University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Penn; University of Pittsburgh; University of Sussex, Sussex University; University of Texas; University of Vermont; University of Washington; University of West Virginia; University of Wisconsin; Yale University, Yale |
- university - a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees
--3 is a kind of educational institution
--3 has member: college
--3 has particulars: multiversity; Open University
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