collegiate

comparative more collegiate · superlative most collegiate

1. Of, or relating to a college, or college students; collegial.

   In De Tolla’s videos, he suggests Livvy has been deployed to charm Madden into committing to attending LSU when he is of age to play collegiate football.

   2023 June 8, Kalhan Rosenblatt, “Who is Baby Gronk? Did Livvy 'rizz' him up? What does any of this really mean?”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023

2. historicalRussian EmpireOf or relating to a collegium.

   To what happy man did this secluded nook belong? To Andrey Ivanovitch Tyentyetnikov, a landowner of the Tremalahansky district, a young unmarried man of thirty-three, by rank a collegiate secretary.

   1922 [1842], Constance Garnett, transl., Dead Souls, translation of Мёртвые души by Nikolai Gogol, Book Two, Chapter I

plural collegiates

1. CanadaA high school.
2. obsoleteA member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
3. obsoleteA fellow-collegian; a colleague.

   those tables of artificial sines and tangents, not long since set out by mine old collegiate, good friend, and late fellow-student of Christ Church in Oxford, Mr. Edmund Gunter […].

   1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 4

4. slangAn inmate of a prison.
5. abbreviationellipsishuman sciencesEllipsis of collegiate dictionary.