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means An institution of higher education where students pursue advanced study and degrees across multiple fields.

from From Latin universitas, meaning 'the whole, a corporation, or a community' — originally just the word for any guild or association of people united by a common purpose. Medieval scholars and teachers in places like Bologna and Paris organized themselves into a universitas magistrorum et scholarium — a 'guild of masters and students' — to protect their collective rights from local authorities, much like a trade union. The word had nothing to do with 'universal' knowledge at first; it only later picked up that grander sense as these guilds evolved into the broad, all-subjects institutions we know now.