vluchtelingenkamp
Meaning
refugee camp
Frequency
Hyphenated as
vluch‧te‧lin‧gen‧kamp
Gender
Neuter
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈvlʏx.tə.lɪ.ŋə(n)ˌkɑmp/
Etymology
From vluchteling + -en- + kamp, probably a calque of English refugee camp. First attested around 1900 in relation to the Second Boer War, denoting the British internment/concentration camps. As a result it was initially considered a cynical, sanitised term, but the word became more neutral during the First World War.
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