Example sentences for: collegiate

How can you use “collegiate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary [hereafter W], despite many improvements over its forebears, still suffers from shortcomings ultimately traceable to the aberrational lexicography reflected in Webster's Third Unabridged . Although direct comparison between the Longman Dictionary of the English Language [hereafter L] and the W reveals many similarities, there are many differences, too.

  • For example, Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (1986) defines a man-about-town as a “wordly and socially active man.”

  • I was under the impression it was based on Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary , and indeed it was; but there are so many improvements and changes that the absence both of a Longman copyright notice and of any identification of a specific editorial director are a bit mysterious.

  • Through the arcades is the central Largo da Oliveira, where the excellent Museu Alberto Sampaio is located in Nossa Senhora da Oliveira (the Collegiate Church of Our Lady of the Olive Tree).

  • Meanwhile, federal courts continue to debate whether the National Collegiate Athletic Association should be subject to federal sex discrimination laws.


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