OPEN UNIVERSITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Open University mean? 

• OPEN UNIVERSITY (noun)
  The noun OPEN UNIVERSITY has 1 sense:

1. a British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school

  Familiarity information: OPEN UNIVERSITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPEN UNIVERSITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Open University" is a kind of...):

university (a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)