Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

colleged

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: col-leged
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Educated; having graduated from higher education.

Informal

Example Sentences

"But that man who is colleged, is always talking about someplace away far-off, like Hindu-China."
"That practical problem outweighs the differences between the colleged and the true believers."
"But if the stanza quoted above suggests that the poet appealed to parenthetical constructions to distinguish folk consciousness and colleged consciousness, […]"

Etymology

From college + -ed.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: college

Usage

Informal

Questions

What does colleged mean?: Educated; having graduated from higher education.
Where does colleged come from?: From college + -ed.

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