campus

Meaning

Noun

1. The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.
2. An institution of higher education and its ambiance.

Verb

1. To confine (a student) to campus as a punishment.
2. To use a campus board, or to climb without feet as one would on a campus board.

Synonyms

college

institute

in-house

precincts

premises

school

🏫

school grounds

schoolyard

terrain

university

academy

college grounds

grounds

Translations

campus

campus

Campus

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campus

campus

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yerleşke

Universitätsgelände

kampüs

Gelände

campus universitaire

حرم

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkæmpəs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of camp and champ.
First used in its current sense in reference to Princeton University in the 1770s.

Sentences

It is the senior campus of Sydney Secondary College .

Edwin Link is the namesake of Link Hall on the campus of Syracuse University .

Adjacent to the Natchez campus of Alcorn State University is Copiah-Lincoln Community College .