university
nounHow many syllables in university?
There are 5 syllables in the word university.How to pronounce university:
Definition of university:
- university (noun):
- the body of faculty and students at a university.
- an institution of higher learning providing facilities for teaching and research and authorized to grant academic degrees
- one made up of an undergraduate division which confers bachelor's degrees and a graduate division which comprises a graduate school and professional schools each of which may confer master's degrees and doctorates
Synonyms for university:
academe
academia
body
gown
graduate school
varsity
Antonyms for university:
academy
college
conservatory
higher education institute
polytechnic
seminary
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- uncooperative
- diagonally
- capability
- disconsolately
- adulteration
- sadistically
- hysterically
- identically
- recapacitate
- conventional
- unwarrantable
- abominable
- matriculation
- cosmopolitan
- intellectual
- overcompensate
- hilariously
- choreography
- significantly
- nostalgically
- multisyllable
- uninterrupted
- accompaniment
- aficionada
- unregrettable
- exhilaration
- unexplainable
- patronizingly
- generically
- technicality
- lackadaisical
- unconditional
- mysteriousness
- magnificently
- interdependent
- expediently
- deliciously
- industrialist
- exaggeration
- craniologist
- perfectionist
- calumniator
- articulacy
- rememberable
- longitudinal
- rectifiable
- victoriously
- sentimentally
- Deuteronomy
- irresponsible
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