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College vs Institute - What's the difference?

college | institute |

In obsolete terms the difference between college and institute

is that college is a corporate group; a group of colleagues while institute is established; organized; founded.

As a verb institute is

to begin or initiate (something); to found.

As an adjective institute is

established; organized; founded.

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 ----

    institute

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) institut, from (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (wikipedia institute) (en noun)
  • An organization founded to promote a cause
    • I work in a medical research institute .
  • An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
  • The building housing such an institution
  • (obsolete) The act of instituting; institution.
  • * Milton
    • water sanctified by Christ's institute
  • (obsolete) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.
  • * Burke
    • They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.
  • * Dryden
    • to make the Stoics' institutes thy own
  • (legal, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
    • (Tomlins)
    Derived terms
    * educational institute * research institute * academic institute

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (institut)
  • To begin or initiate (something); to found.
    • He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.
  • * (rfdate) Shakespeare
    • And haply institute / A course of learning and ingenious studies.
  • * 1776 , (Thomas Jefferson), (Declaration of Independence) :
    • Whenever any from of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government.
  • (obsolete) To train, instruct.
  • *, II.27:
  • *:Publius was the first that ever instituted the Souldier to manage his armes by dexteritie and skil, and joyned art unto vertue, not for the use of private contentions, but for the wars and Roman peoples quarrels.
  • * (rfdate) Dr. H. More
    • If children were early instituted , knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself.
  • To nominate; to appoint.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
    • We institute your Grace / To be our regent in these parts of France.
  • (ecclesiastical, legal) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
    • (Blackstone)

    Related terms

    * institution * institutional

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Established; organized; founded.
  • * Robynson (More's Utopia)
    • They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute , very few to suffice.

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