What is the difference between "vocabulary" and "taxonomy term"?

Hi @apoderno, it's normal to be confuse, that's because a vocabulary and taxonomy are similar but not the same, I will explain with similar case!

• Drupal Restaurant Site:

You are a developer of a Restaurant site, in this restaurant you can order any kind of food Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Italian, Spanish, Greek, French and you need to classify that food in this kind of food, so you go the Drupal Restaurant Site,you create a vocabulary in structure>taxonomy with the list of types of foods. we could name it likeDish Type, that's the Vocabulary and the terms inside the vocabulary are the Taxonomy Terms (the items like Chinese, Japanese, Greek etc...), then when you create a Dish content type (in structure>content types) you can add a field to reference to a taxonomy and when you add the content in Content>Add content and you can select the kind of food of the dish that you are adding. The taxonomy is the entity that you reference inside the node, as a content type, a block a media or anything else that you can make a reference in a drupal site.

Resume: Dish type is the Vocabulary, the items inside Dish type are the taxonomy terms, and the taxonomy is the entity like other entities inside drupal!

Remember The Taxonomy term are entities, so you can do a lot of things with that, like add fields inside the terms in /admin/structure/taxonomy/manage/taxonomy_machine_name/overview/fields and use for other proposes, but remember they are created to classify other entities inside drupal!

I hope I've helped!

A vocabulary is a set of taxonomy terms; taxonomy terms are items of that set. You first create a vocabulary and then add items in that vocabulary.

There is not having that needs to be corrected in the documentation about that. It is just a matter of understanding that one is the name of the whole, and one is the name of the single items.

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