JUNIOR COLLEGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does junior college mean? 

• JUNIOR COLLEGE (noun)
  The noun JUNIOR COLLEGE has 1 sense:

1. a college that offers only the first two years terminating in an associate degree

  Familiarity information: JUNIOR COLLEGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUNIOR COLLEGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A college that offers only the first two years terminating in an associate degree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("junior college" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "junior college"):

community college (a nonresidential junior college offering a curriculum fitted to the needs of the community)

normal school; teachers college (a two-year school for training elementary teachers)