collegiate school

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1 — Hist.

in Manitoba, a high school having special academic facilities and superior staff.

Quotations

1860

A collegiate school had opened a year before.

1871

St. John's Collegiate School broke up for the midsummer vacation of Friday. . . .

2 — N.S.

a school affiliated with a college or university.

1832

A very respectable academy, built of free-stone, and called the Collegiate School, stands within the [King's] college grounds [Windsor, N.S.].

1927

About nine hundred students attend the college and its affiliated seminary and collegiate school, making Wolfville [N.S.] a real university town.