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colegio

=

high school

noun

colegio

masculine noun

1. school (escuela)

colegio estatal -> state school (British), public school (United States)
colegio de monjas -> convent school
colegio mixto -> mixed o coeducational school
colegio nacional -> state primary school
colegio de pago -> fee-paying school
colegio de párvulos -> infant school
colegio privado -> private school
colegio público -> state school (British), public school (United States)

2. (de profesionales)

colegio (profesional) -> professional association

3. (politics)

colegio electoral -> polling station; (lugar) ward (votantes)

also:

colegio mayor -> hall of residence (peninsular Spanish)

COLEGIO DE MÉXICO The Colegio de México is an institution dedicated to research and graduate teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities, and has exercised a leading influence on intellectual and academic life in Mexico since its foundation in 1940. It developed from the “Casa de España”, which was set up in 1938 as a refuge for exiled Spanish academics during the Spanish Civil War, and of which the Mexican writer Alfonso Reyes was one of the first directors. The early work of the Colegio concentrated on historical, literary and linguistic research, but in time it grew to encompass economics, demographics and sociology, as well as Asian, African and International studies. Although it is a small institution compared with the large public universities, it has one of the most important libraries in Latin America (the Biblioteca Cosío Villegas), and publishes about 100 books a year.

colegio [co-lay’-he-o]

noun

1. College, school. (m)

Colegio de internos -> boarding school
Colegio de pago -> fee-paying school

2. College, the house in which collegians reside. (m)

3. A seminary of education for young ladies. (m)

4. College, a society of men of the same profession. (m)

Colegio de abogados -> bar association
Colegio electoral -> electoral college

"colegio" in the Answers forum


Q:	What is a colegio?
A:	In Argentina they use colegio for high school and facultad o universidad for college.

Q:	¿Qué significa el colegio?
A:	typically it means grade school/elementary school or high school. it is a false cognate that does NOT mean college.

Q:	true means of "colegio"
A:	In Mexico we have "public" and "private" schools in all levels: - Jardín de Niños ( 3 - 5 años) (known too as kinder) - Primaria ( 6 - 12 años)…

Q:	Es alumno en el Colegio Juarez?
A:	thank you

Q:	what does normalmente voy al colegio mean
A:	Please give us your translation first. We will be happy to offer corrections.