training college

noun

British

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After graduating from high school, Walz went to a teacher training college and joined the Army National Guard. Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2024 The building itself, which used to be a teacher training college, played a vital role in the Dutch resistance. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024 According to the website of the Etilaat Roz, a longtime Kabul newspaper now based abroad, the seminary had recently been opened by local Taliban officials in the building of a former training college for teachers. Arkansas Online, 1 Dec. 2022 On July 20, 1968, Page was in the audience when Plant performed at a teachers’ training college in Walsall with a group of little distinction called Obs-Tweedle. James Wood, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022 She had recently been married and had graduated from a teacher training college. BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2021 Students from a rural teacher-training college were trying to secure buses for a trip to Mexico City. New York Times, 26 Sep. 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1839, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of training college was in 1839

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“Training college.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/training%20college. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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