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campus

[kam-puhs]

noun

plural

campuses 
  1. the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.

  2. a college or university.

    The large influx of older students radically changed many campuses throughout the country.

  3. a division of a university that has its own grounds, buildings, and faculty but is administratively joined to the rest of the university.

  4. the world of higher education.

    Foundation grants have had a marked effect on the character of the American campus.

  5. a large, usually suburban, landscaped business or industrial site.



campus

/ ˈæə /

noun

  1. the grounds and buildings of a university

  2. the outside area of a college, university, etc

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • intercampus adjective
  • noncampus adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of campus1

1765–75, < Latin: flat place, field, plain
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Word History and Origins

Origin of campus1

C18: from Latin: field
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As I started to get a little older, I remember playing on campus at Cal Berkeley with a ragtag group of guys — a local dance kind of thing for the students.

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“It’s not enough that they’ve spent weeks violently ambushing people, now ICE and CBP agents are allegedly entering school campuses, pulling down their pants, and urinating on playgrounds,” she said.

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These include enhanced surveillance around campuses, new awareness campaigns and rehabilitation programmes for students, along with Zumba lessons.

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The policies govern all campuses, medical centers, the Agriculture and Natural Resources division and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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But today, quarters are largely a relic, with roughly 50 campuses nationwide using them — compared to nearly 150 in the mid-1990s — according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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