COLLEGIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collegial mean? 

• COLLEGIAL (adjective)
  The adjective COLLEGIAL has 2 senses:

1. characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues

2. of or resembling or typical of a college or college students

  Familiarity information: COLLEGIAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLEGIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

a tendency to turn from collegial to one-man management

Pertainym:

colleague (a person who is member of one's class or profession)

Derivation:

colleague (an associate that one works with)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or resembling or typical of a college or college students

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

collegial; collegiate

Context example:

collegiate clothes

Pertainym:

college (the body of faculty and students of a college)

Derivation:

college (a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed)

college (the body of faculty and students of a college)

college (an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university)