College vs. Coworker — What's the Difference?

A college (Latin: collegium) is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offering vocational education, or a secondary school.

One who works with another; a fellow worker.

An institution of higher learning that grants the bachelor's degree in liberal arts or science or both.

Somebody with whom one works.

An undergraduate division or school of a university offering courses and granting degrees in a particular field or group of fields.

A junior or community college.

A school offering special instruction in a professional or technical subject

The students, faculty, and administration of one of these schools or institutions

The building, buildings, or grounds where one of these schools or institutions is located

Chiefly British A self-governing society of scholars for study or instruction, incorporated within a university.

An institution for secondary education in France and certain other countries that is not supported by the state.

A body of persons having a common purpose or shared duties

An electoral college.

A body of clerics living together on an endowment.

(obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.

(in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.

(politics) An electoral college.

An academic institution.

A specialized division of a university.

An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.

A university.

(Canada) A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.

A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.

(UK) An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.

(UK) An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).

A high school or secondary school.

(Australia) A private (non-government) primary or high school.

(Australia) A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.

(Singapore) A government high school, short for junior college.

(in Chile) A bilingual school.

A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.

A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.

A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.

Fig.: A community.

The body of faculty and students of a college

An institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university

British slang for prison

A complex of buildings in which a college is housed