Dutch English Dictionary

Nederlands, Vlaams - English

universiteit in English:

1. college college


He is in college.
Throughout the United State large numbers of young people enter college every year.
Some of the college students who are caught cheating on the exams do not even blush.
I think it's a shame that some foreign language teachers were able to graduate from college without ever having studied with a native speaker.
These figures indicate three in five college first-year students are indifferent to politics.
Any student who wishes to review his grades may make an appointment with the college dean.
What surprised me most when I first entered college was how few of my classmates knew how to study efficiently.
There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for their child's college education.
Though his stay in Europe was transient, Spenser felt he had learned much more about interactions with other people from traveling than he did at college.
It's too bad the college dining hall doesn't have fig cookies.
Mariela had a terrible time with her college advisors, who were worse at keeping her schedule together than she herself was.
My cousin Teddy majored in French in college and studied in Paris for one year.
Don't give in to despair just because you didn't get into the college that was at the top of your wish-list.
Looking back on our college days, it seems as if they were a century ago.
When I reach retirement age in 1998, I will have worked for the college for thirty years.

English word "universiteit"(college) occurs in sets:

Unit 2 studyboxes 1 and 2

2. university


I'm a university student.
Irene Pepperberg, a researcher at Northwestern University, is discovering that a parrot can not only mimic people but also learn the meaning of words.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Kimura is a Tokyo university graduate who became a taxi driver. According to some people's standards, he might be considered a failure, but I think it's fine as long as he likes driving.
Recently I attended the wedding of a Chinese friend. The bride and groom had been classmates at university, and both graduated from the Chinese faculty. They've already been together for five years.
It seems as it was a shot-gun wedding so they're having a quiet wedding with only family and a couple of friends from university invited.
I became acquainted with beautiful Polish women at the university in Brazil, and I also met there some very friendly people who could speak Polish.
During the holidays, some university students go to Africa as volunteers and help to perfect local wildlife conservation.
I have one of my friends who graduated from university and became a fine public servant. Once he told me that what he had learned from school had been useless. However, what little philosophy he had learned proved to be of great benefit.
Although the pressure of studying at the University of Cambridge is very high, many students still have time to go out and have fun.
I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work - collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn't have been proved more wrong.
As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. It was Islam – at places like Al-Azhar University – that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's Renaissance and Enlightenment.
I pay my university fees to go to university by part-time work. Well, I'm a 'working student' I suppose.
You know what my idiot son's doing? Even now he's graduated from university he spends all his time playing pachinko instead of getting a job.

English word "universiteit"(university) occurs in sets:

study box four - the art of kissing