uni

See also: Appendix:Variations of "uni"

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Etymology 1

Clipping of university.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.ni/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːni

Noun

uni (plural unis)

1. (colloquial, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) University.

   I'm going to uni after I leave school.

   Turn left when you reach the uni.

Usage notes

Canadian usage is limited to prepositional phrases like to uni or at uni and cannot be used as a countable noun (as in *the uni or *unis).

Translations

university

Bengali: ভার্সিটি (bharsiṭi) (colloquial) Chinese: Cantonese: U (yue) (ju1) Mandarin: 大學 / 大学 (zh) (dàxué) Finnish: lipasto (fi) (slang) French: fac (fr) Georgian: უნი (uni) (colloquial) German: Uni (de) f Italian: uni (it) f Polish: uniwerek (pl) m Portuguese: facul f Russian: униве́р (ru) m (univér) (colloquial), у́ник (ru) m (únik) (colloquial), у́ни m (úni) (colloquial, indeclinable) Slovene: faks m Spanish: uni (es) f

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 雲丹.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.niː/
• Rhymes: -uːni

Noun

uni (uncountable)

1. Sea urchin eaten as sushi.
   • 2013 July 16, Ken Belson, “In Japan, Searching for Prized Sea Urchins”, in The New York Times‎:

     The ikura popped in my mouth, the hotate was buttery soft and the uni was creamy and sweet without a seafood aftertaste, the kind of freshness I was hoping we would encounter when we left Tokyo.

Anagrams

• NUI, Niu