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College vs Campus - What's the difference?

college | campus |

As nouns the difference between college and campus

is that college is a corporate group; a group of colleagues while campus is the grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.

As a verb campus is

to confine to campus as a punishment.

college

English

(wikipedia college)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.
  • (in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.
    • College''' of Cardinals'', '''''College of Surgeons
  • (politics) An electoral college.
  • An academic institution.
  • An institution of higher education.
  • (US) An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
  • (attributively, chiefly, US) Attendance at an institution of higher education.
    • These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.
  • (Canada) A postsecondary institution that does not award bachelor's degrees, instead offering vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
  • (chiefly, UK) A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.
    • Pembroke College''', Cambridge''; ''Balliol '''College''', Oxford''; ''University '''College , London
  • (US, New Zealand) A specialized division of a university.
    • College of Engineering
  • (UK, in the names of private schools) A secondary school.
    • Eton College
  • (UK) An institution of further education at an intermediate level (in the UK, typically teaching those aged 16 to 19); sixth form.
  • (New Zealand) A high school or secondary school.
  • (UK) An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).
  • (Australia) A residential hall associated with a university, which may be independent or have its own tutors but is not involved in teaching.

    • Synonyms

    * (institution of higher education) university * (specialized division of a university) department, faculty, school

    Derived terms

    * community college * electoral college * junior college * old college try

    Related terms

    * collegiate * collegium

    See also

    * university ----

    campus

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-24, volume=408, issue=8850, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter
    • , title= Mr Geek goes to Washington , passage=From their corporate campuses on the west coast, America’s technology entrepreneurs used to ignore faraway Washington, DC—or mention the place only to chastise it for holding back innovation with excessive regulation. They have, at times, invested in the low politics of self-interested lobbying […]. Yet unlike Wall Street
  • An institution of higher education and its ambiance.

    • Usage notes

    * The Latinate plural form campi is sometimes used, particularly with respect to colleges or universities; however, it is sometimes frowned upon. By contrast, the common plural form campuses is universally accepted.

    Derived terms

    * campus legend * off-campus / on-campus

    Related terms

    * camp * campi (nonstandard plural) *

    Verb

    (es)
  • To confine to campus as a punishment.
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