There is a micro-phenomenon of new wave, special snowflake directors that try to revolution the canons of classical opera. I saw Carmen being banged behind a burning car next to what looked like a flamenco-infused Thunderdome. That was in Paris opera, stronghold of modernist SJW nonsense.
Here, the expression is a shorter version of matriculation college. In a number of Canadian cities, many government-run secondary schools are called collegiates or collegiate institutes (C.I.), a complicated form of the word college which avoids the usual post-secondary connotation.
uk â /ËprÉv.Ést/ us â /ËprÉË.vÉst/. âº UK (in some universities) the person in charge of a particular college: the Provost of King's College, Cambridge. âº US an important official who helps to run a college or university. Thesaurus: synonyms and related words.