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Varsity   Listen
noun
Varsity  n.  
1.
Colloquial contraction of University. (Brit.)
2.
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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"Varsity" Quotes from Famous Books



... as were also Bob, Ted, and Thad, who likewise had hopes. There was talk and laughter, and admiring and envying glances were cast at the big men—those who had played on the varsity team last year. They were ...
— Andy at Yale - The Great Quadrangle Mystery • Roy Eliot Stokes

... I was an athlete," Mr. Fentolin continued. "I played cricket for the Varsity and for my county. I hunted, too, and shot. I did all the things a man loves to do. I might still shoot, they tell me, but my strength has ebbed away. I am too weak to lift a gun, too weak even to handle a fishing-rod. ...
— The Vanished Messenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... Brasenose, and all that sort of thing, and the future looked very bright for him. Before he was twenty-one, however, his father lost everything through unlucky speculations, and that forced the son to make his own living. At the 'Varsity he had fallen in with a rich young Belgian, named Maurice Van Nant, who had a taste for sculpture and the fine arts generally, and they had become the warmest ...
— Cleek, the Master Detective • Thomas W. Hanshew

... the deeps Of Southern lakes, the sky That bends over the Azores, The language of the links, the eyes Of fair-haired angels, the Policeman's helmet and the backs Of books issued by the Government, Also the Bird of Happiness (MAETERLINCK) And many other things such as The Varsity colours, various kinds Of pottery and limelight, Some things by SWINBURNE, BURNS and EZRA POUND, The speedwell in the glade, and, oh! The little cubes ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, April 7, 1920 • Various

... 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

... it must have made hard scratchin' at times. But somehow or other Sadie produces a dozen or more husky young chaps with good fam'ly connections and the proper financial ratin's. Among 'em was a polo player, two ex-varsity fullbacks, and a blond German military aide that she borrowed from a friend in Washington for the occasion. She tries 'em out single and in groups, using Mrs. Purdy-Pell's horseshow box and town house as liberal as railroad waitin' rooms. And, say, when it ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford



Words linked to "Varsity" :   varsity letter, university, first team, varsity sock, team, squad, junior varsity



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