university - podictionary 654

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DATE : Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:01:55 +0000
Entered in Database : 2007-11-30 05:01:55
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Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world but when it began, almost instantly after the Norman Invasion, it wasn't called a university. Universitas is Latin and so Oxford's transition to university status, which happened in 1231 didn't show up as an English word right away. Even when it gained the Latin label the word didn't mean specifically that Oxford was a place of higher learning, instead universitas meant that it was incorporated.

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