"junior college" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: junior colleges [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} junior college (countable and uncountable, plural junior colleges)
  1. (education) An institution of higher education that awards an associate's degree but not a bachelor's degree or higher. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Education, Education Translations (institution of higher learning that awards the associate's degree but not bachelor's degree or higher): 初級學院 (Chinese Mandarin), 初级学院 (chūjí xuéyuàn) (Chinese Mandarin), opisto (Finnish), trường cao đẳng (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-junior_college-en-noun-FlCaDtRQ Disambiguation of Education: 56 44 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 71 29 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 69 31 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 64 36 Topics: education Disambiguation of "institution of higher learning that awards the associate's degree but not bachelor's degree or higher": 90 10
  2. (Singapore) A government high school, usually abbreviated to "JC". Tags: Singapore, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-junior_college-en-noun-QksFYBd6 Categories (other): Singapore English

Inflected forms

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