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/vˈɑrsɪti/ Listen

noun

Varsity n.

Colloquial contraction of University. (Brit.)

The team with the best players of a school or club, being the main representative of the organization in competitive play between schools or organizations. In schools, contrasted with junior varsity. Also used attributively, as, the varsity football team.

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Etymology of 'Varsity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Varsity" Quotes from Famous Books

... He actually drilled a lot of dummies into the use of the oar and into something like the genuine English stroke. Everybody acknowledged it was something marvelous, and one newspaper reporter had the nerve to say that the freshmen had given the 'varsity crew a pointer." ...

— Frank Merriwell's Races • Burt L. Standish

... laboured at clearing away the underbrush. The vivid colours of the jerseys in which they were clad told the world that those on the one side were students from McGill, while those on the other clad in blue and white represented 'Varsity (Toronto). Further along the red, yellow, and blue of Queen's University showed where their University Field Company was at work. The same spirit of competition that existed on the football field now kept the three ...

— From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade • Frederic C. Curry

... Then, if you don't have too much money, you can work. It sounds strange to say there's any fun in that, but there is. I want to get you into the game, Frances. You're going to like it. Farnsworth is going to let me sell next month. It's like making the 'Varsity. I'm going to have a salary and commission, so you see it will be partly a personal fight. You can help me. Why, the very things we were planning to get done with before we married are the very things that are worth while. We can stand shoulder to shoulder now and play the game together. You ...

— The Wall Street Girl • Frederick Orin Bartlett

... insolence and contempt by one of his assistants, who neglected his work, smoked in his class-room, and even absented himself on occasions without leave. It may be asked why the head-master did not dismiss his recalcitrant assistant. It was because he had secured a man who was a 'Varsity cricket-blue, and whose presence on the staff gave the parents confidence, and provided an excellent advertisement. The assistant, on the other hand, knew that he could get a similar post for the asking, and on the whole preferred a school where he might consult his own convenience. This is, of ...

— From a College Window • Arthur Christopher Benson

... when my assistant took a holiday they sent me a 'Varsity man. I told 'em not to do it again. Too damned gentlemanly ...

— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham

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