Definition of "junior college" []

• An educational institution offering a two-year course that is generally the equivalent of the first two years of a four-year undergraduate course. (noun)

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• "Two weeks later I get a call from Melvin Black, a buddy I played with in junior college who is now playing for the New England Patriots."
• "After Laura graduated from high school, she went to live with some cousins of ours in Crownfield, because the junior college there had such a good drama department."
• "Laura had finished her second year at the junior college by then, and she just went on taking care of the kids for several more months, when for some reason she decided to marry Ed Baggett."