Collegian carries two distinct meanings.
Collegian carries two distinct meanings. In standard usage it refers to a student or former student of a college or university — someone associated with academic collegiate life. In British slang it also has a historical sense as a euphemism for an inmate of a debtors' prison, where the ironic joke likens imprisonment to attending an educational institution. The standard sense is far more common; the slang sense is archaic and encountered mainly in 19th-century literature and social history.
As a collegian in the 1990s, he had more debt than knowledge but fond memories of both.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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A student (or a former student) of a college.
(slang) An inmate of a prison.
Of or relating to a college or its students.