College vs. Lyceum — 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.

The lyceum is a category of educational institution defined within the education system of many countries, mainly in Europe. The definition varies among countries; usually it is a type of secondary school.

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

A hall in which public lectures, concerts, and similar programs are presented.

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

An organization sponsoring public programs and entertainment.

A junior or community college.

A lycée.

A school offering special instruction in a professional or technical subject

(historical) A public hall designed for lectures, readings, or concerts.

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

A school, especially European, at a stage between elementary school and college, a lycée.

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

An association for literary improvement.

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

A place of exercise with covered walks, in the suburbs of Athens, where Aristotle taught philosophy.

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

A house or apartment appropriated to instruction by lectures or disquisitions.

A body of persons having a common purpose or shared duties

A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university.

An electoral college.

An association for debate and literary improvement.

A body of clerics living together on an endowment.

A school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12

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

A public hall for lectures and concerts

(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