different between college vs commons

English

Alternative forms

• colledg, colledge (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English college, from Old French college, from Latin collegium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?l?d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?l?d??/
• Rhymes: -?l?d?

Noun

college (plural colleges)

1. (obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.
2. (in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.

3. (politics) An electoral college.
4. An academic institution. [From 1560s.]
   1. A specialized division of a university.

   2. (chiefly US) An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.

   3. (Ireland) A university.
   4. (attributively, chiefly US) Attendance at an institution of higher education.

   5. (Canada) A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
   6. (chiefly Britain) A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.

   7. (Britain) An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.
   8. (Britain) An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).
   9. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa) A high school or secondary school.

   10. (Australia) A private (non-government) primary or high school.
   11. (Australia) A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.
   12. (Singapore) A government high school, short for junior college.
   13. (in Chile) A bilingual school.

Synonyms

• (specialized division of a university) department, faculty, school

Hyponyms

• community college
• electoral college
• junior college

Derived terms

• fresh-out-of-college
• out-of-college

Related terms

• old college try
• collegiate
• collegium

Translations

See also

• university

Anagrams

• geocell

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch college, from Middle French college, from Latin coll?gium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??le?.??/
• Hyphenation: col?le?ge
• Rhymes: -e???

Noun

college n (plural colleges, diminutive collegetje n)

1. lecture, class
2. committee, authority

Derived terms

• collegejaar
• collegezaal

Related terms

• collega

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: kolese

Finnish

Etymology

From English college. The "sweatshirt" sense is a pseudo-anglicism and is probably due to the prevalence of college related text on such sweatshirts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kolids(i)/, [?ko?lids?(i)] (especially in the sweatshirt sense)
• IPA^(key): /?kolid?(i)/, [?ko?lid?(i)]

Noun

college

1. sweatshirt (especially one with text referring to a certain college)
2. college (learning institution)

Declension

This table shows the spoken declension with IPA symbols, which falls nicely into risti -class.

Written declension is more complicated due to the difficulty of combining "college" with risti-type endings. Therefore, it might be advisable to avoid inflecting this word in writing by using synonyms, when available. If one has to, one option is to write as if the pronunciation were finnicized to /?ko?l?e?ge?/, in which case the word would fall into nalle-category with the exception that collegeiden seems to be more commonly used as genitive plural than collegejen and collegein is not used as genitive plural:

Synonyms

• (sweatshirt): collegepusero

Middle English

Alternative forms

• colegg, colege, collage, colage, colegie

Etymology

From Old French college, from Latin collegium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?l???d?(?)/, /k?l?a?d?(?)/, /?k?l?d?(?)/

Noun

college (plural collegis)

1. A grouping of clergy (usually relying on public funding).
2. A grouping of teachers and students; a university or part of one.
3. A grouping of colleagues; a team or organisation.

Related terms

• collegial
• collegian
• collegiate

Descendants

• English: college
• Scots: college

References

• “coll???e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-12.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin collegium.

Noun

college m (oblique plural colleges, nominative singular colleges, nominative plural college)

1. institution; organization (establishment of people with similar aims/goals)

Descendants

• ? Dutch: college
  • ? Indonesian: kolese
• ? Middle English: college
  • English: college
    • ? Finnish: college
    • ? Hindi: ????? (k?lij)
    • ? Russian: ??????? (kolledž)
    • ? Serbo-Croatian: koledž
    • ? Slovene: koledž
• French: collège
  • ? Turkish: kolej
• ? Middle Irish: coláisde
  • Irish: coláiste
• Norman: collège

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: k?m??nz, IPA^(key): /?k?m?nz/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?m??nz, IPA^(key): /?k?m?nz/
• Hyphenation: com?mons

Noun

commons

1. plural of common

Noun

commons

1. A dining hall, usually at a college or university.
2. A central section of (usually an older) town, designated as a shared area, a common.

   The Renaissance festival started with the "peasants" meeting in the commons.

   The commons is the green space surrounded by the village hall, the school, and the church.

   The commons of New England towns are important contributors to their charm.

3. (figuratively) The mutual good of all; the abstract concept of resources shared by more than one, for example air, water, information.

   Synonym: res communis

   "The tragedy of the commons" is that none wish to make sacrifices of their or their family's interests for the common good.

4. (euphemistic, obsolete) An outhouse.
5. (obsolete, Britain, Oxford University) Food served at a fixed rate from the college buttery, distinguished from battels.
6. Food in general; rations.

   short commons

Synonyms

• (outhouse): common house, House of Commons; see also Thesaurus:bathroom

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

commons

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of common

References

• commons in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Verb

commons

1. first-person plural present indicative of commer
2. first-person plural imperative of commer