1. An institution of learning that offers instruction in the liberal arts, humanities, and sciences, but not in the technical arts or in studies preparatory to admission to a profession. [Cases: Colleges and Universities
1. C.J.S. Colleges and Universities §§ 2–3, 9.]
2. An assembly of people, established by law to perform some special function or to promote some common purpose, usu. of an educational, political, ecclesiastical, or scientific nature.