collegen.[F. collge, L. collegium, fr. collega colleague. See Colleague.]1. A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.()The college of the cardinals. (Shak.)Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this. (Jer. Taylor.)2. A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.()()3. A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.(Macaulay.)4. Fig.: A community.()Thick as the college of the bees in May. (Dryden.)College of justice, a term applied in Scotland to the supreme civil courts and their principal officers. -- The sacred college, the college or cardinals at Rome.()