From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishseat of learningseat of learningformal a university, college etc → seat
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seat of learning• She spoke of Oxford, that ancient seat of learning, to which universities all over the world still looked for example.• It would be sad if our own seats of learning were behind-hand in this confusion.• Leave this seat of learning and you come into the newly renamed Marianské Square. 