Noun university has 3 senses
  1. university - the body of faculty and students at a university
    --1 is a kind of
    body
    --1 is a part of academia, academe
    --1 has members: graduate school, grad school
    --1 has particulars: varsity
  2. university - establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching
    --2 is a kind of
    establishment
    --2 has particulars:
     Brown University, Brown; Cambridge University, Cambridge; Carnegie-Mellon University; city university; Columbia University, Columbia; Cooper Union, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Cornell University; Duke University; Harvard University, Harvard; Johns Hopkins; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT; Ohio State University; Oxbridge; Oxford University, Oxford; Paris University, University of Paris, Sorbonne; Princeton University, Princeton; redbrick university; Stanford University, Stanford; University of California at Berkeley; University of Chicago; University of Michigan; University of Nebraska; University of North Carolina; University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Penn; University of Pittsburgh; University of Sussex, Sussex University; University of Texas; University of Vermont; University of Washington; University of West Virginia; University of Wisconsin; Yale University, Yale
  3. university - a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees
    --3 is a kind of
    educational institution
    --3 has member: college
    --3 has particulars: multiversity; Open University
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