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Collegiate vs Intercollegiate - What's the difference?

collegiate | intercollegiate |

As adjectives the difference between collegiate and intercollegiate

is that collegiate is of, or relating to a college, or college students while intercollegiate is of, pertaining to, or taking place between two or more colleges.

As a noun collegiate

is (obsolete) a member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.

collegiate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
  • Collegial.

    • Derived terms

    * collegiate church * collegiately

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
  • (obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
  • * , II.2.4:
    • those tables of artificial sines and tangents, not long since set out by mine old collegiate , good friend, and late fellow-student of Christ Church in Oxford, Mr. Edmund Gunter […].
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    intercollegiate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, pertaining to, or taking place between two or more colleges.