Usually means: Institutions for higher educational learning.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word colleges:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. colleges: Merriam-Webster
  2. colleges: Collins English Dictionary
  3. colleges: Vocabulary.com
  4. College's, Colleges, Colleges, college's, colleges, colleges: Wordnik
  5. colleges: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. colleges: Wiktionary
  7. colleges: Dictionary.com
  8. colleges: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Colleges: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Colleges: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Colleges: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Colleges: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Colleges: Medical dictionary

(Note: See college as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (College)

noun:  (education) An academic institution.
noun:  A specialized division of a university.
noun:  (chiefly US) An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
noun:  (Ireland, Philippines) A university.
noun:  (Canada) A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
noun:  (chiefly UK) A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.
noun:  (UK) An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.
noun:  (UK) An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).
noun:  (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa) A high school or secondary school.
noun:  (Australia) A private (non-government) primary or high school.
noun:  (Australia) A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.
noun:  (Singapore) A government high school, short for junior college.
noun:  (in Chile) A bilingual school.
noun:  (in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.
noun:  (politics) An electoral college.
noun:  (obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.
noun:  A census-designated place in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States.
noun:  A township in Knox County, Ohio, United States, named for Kenyon College.
noun:  A township in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States; it borders onto the municipality of State College, Pennsylvania.
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