colleged

English

Etymology

From college +‎ -ed.

Adjective

colleged (not comparable)

1. (rare or informal) Educated; having graduated from higher education.
   • 1953, Langston Hughes, Simple Stakes‎^[1], Rinehart & Company:

     But that man who is colleged, is always talking about someplace away far-off, like Hindu-China.

   • 2022 November 9, Shelly Eversley, editor, African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970‎^[2], →ISBN:

     But if the stanza quoted above suggests that the poet appealed to parenthetical constructions to distinguish folk consciousness and colleged consciousness, […]

   • 1998, University of California, Agni‎^[3], numbers 47-50:

     That practical problem outweighs the differences between the colleged and the true believers.

Anagrams

• Colledge, colledge