campus
Use Campus in a sentence
pəs noun, plural cam·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; < Latin: flat place, field, plain
1765–75, Americanism; < Latin: flat place, field, plain
Related forms
in·ter·cam·pus, adjective
non·cam·pus, adjective
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Campus
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —n , pl -puses | |
| 1. | the grounds and buildings of a university |
| 2. | chiefly (US) the outside area of a college, university, etc |
| [C18: from Latin: field] | |
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Word Origin & History
campus
"college grounds," 1774, from L. campus "a field," probably properly "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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Example sentences
The school occupies modern buildings on the sprawling, low-rise university campus.
The school is based in a group of four buildings on the university campus.
In another building on campus, he is raising goats that will eventually receive the experimental hearts.
Though the great postwar tide of veterans was receding, uniforms were still common on campus.
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