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campus - 4 dictionary results

cam⋅pus

[kam-puhs]
–noun, plural -pus⋅es.
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.

Origin:
1765–75, Americanism; < L: flat place, field, plain
cam·pus   (kām'pəs)   
n.   pl. cam·pus·es
  1. The grounds of a school, college, university, or hospital.
  2. A college or university: campuses that are located across the state.

[Latin, field.]

Campus

Cam"pus\, n. [L., a field.] The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.
Language Translation for : campus
Spanish: recinto universitario, campus,
German: der Campus,
Japanese: 学校の構内

campus 
1774, from L. campus "a field," probably prop. "an expanse surrounded" (by woods, higher ground, etc.), from PIE *kampos "a corner, cove," from base *kamp- "to bend" (cf. Lith. kampus "corner," Pol. kepa "island in a river"). First used in college sense at Princeton.
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