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Venue vs Campus - What's the difference?

venue | campus |

As nouns the difference between venue and campus

is that venue is a place, especially the one where a given event is to happen 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.

venue

English

(wikipedia venue)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A place, especially the one where a given event is to happen.
  • (legal) A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid.
  • * The twelve men who are to try the cause must be of the same venue where the demand is made. --.
  • (obsolete) A bout; a hit; a turn. See venew.
  • (sports) Sport venue: a stadium or similar building in which a sporting competition is held.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=November 10 , author=Jeremy Wilson , title= England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report , work=Telegraph citation , page= , passage=With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.}}

    Usage notes

    In certain cases, the court has power to change the venue, which is to direct the trial to be had in a different county from that where the venue is laid.

    Synonyms

    See come, and confer venew, veney.

    Hyponyms

    * stadium * arena

    Related terms

    * lay a venue * bienvenue ----

    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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