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College vs. Fraternity — What's the Difference?

College vs. Fraternity — What's the Difference?

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College

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.

Fraternity

A fraternity (from Latin frater: "brother"; whence, "brotherhood") or fraternal organization is an organization, society, club or fraternal order traditionally of men associated together for various religious or secular aims. Fraternity in the Western concept developed in the Christian context, notably with the religious orders in the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.

College

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

Fraternity

A body of people associated for a common purpose or interest, such as a guild.

College

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

A group of people joined by similar backgrounds, occupations, interests, or tastes
The fraternity of bird watchers.

College

A junior or community college.

Fraternity

A social organization at a college or university, traditionally consisting of male students and designated by Greek letters.

College

A school offering special instruction in a professional or technical subject
A medical college.

Fraternity

Roman Catholic Church A sodality.

College

The students, faculty, and administration of one of these schools or institutions
New policies adopted by the college.

Fraternity

The quality or condition of being brothers; brotherliness.

College

The building, buildings, or grounds where one of these schools or institutions is located
Drove over to the college.

Fraternity

The quality of being brothers or brotherly; brotherhood.

College

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

Fraternity

A group of people associated for a common purpose.

College

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

Fraternity

(US) A social organization of male students at a college or university; usually identified by Greek letters.

College

A body of persons having a common purpose or shared duties
A college of surgeons.

Fraternity

The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.

College

An electoral college.

Fraternity

A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Church, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc.

College

A body of clerics living together on an endowment.

Fraternity

Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes.
With what terms of respect knaves and sots will speak of their own fraternity!

College

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

Fraternity

A social club for male college undergraduates. They often have secret initiation rites, and are named by the use of two or three Greek letters. The corresponding association for women students is called a sorority.

College

(in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.
College of Cardinals, College of Surgeons

Fraternity

A social club for male undergraduates

College

(politics) An electoral college.

Fraternity

People engaged in a particular occupation;
The medical fraternity

College

An academic institution.

College

A specialized division of a university.
College of Engineering

College

An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
She's still in college
These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.

College

A university.

College

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

College

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

College

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

College

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

College

A high school or secondary school.
Eton College

College

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

College

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

College

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

College

(in Chile) A bilingual school.

College

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.
The college of the cardinals.
Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this.

College

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.

College

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

College

Fig.: A community.
Thick as the college of the bees in May.

College

The body of faculty and students of a college

College

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

College

British slang for prison

College

A complex of buildings in which a college is housed

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