Campus Meaning
/ˈkæmpəs/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.
nounAn institution of higher education and its ambiance.
Sentence Examples
My school is getting ready for the campus music festival.
Our campus festival is to be held next week.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Students often study at the library in the center of the university ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The university ____ is very large and has many beautiful buildings.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of camp and champ. First used in its current sense in reference to Princeton University in the 1770s.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"From their corporate campuses on the west coast, America’s technology entrepreneurs used to ignore faraway Washington, DC—or mention the place only to chastise it for holding back innovation with excessive regulation. They have, at times, invested in the low politics of self-interested lobbying […]. Yet unlike Wall Street[…]tech tycoons have remained largely aloof from the broader affairs of the nation’s capital."
— 2013 August 24, Schumpeter, “Mr Geek goes to Washington”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8850:
"In addition to this signage there are promotional videos broadcast in English on television screens around the campus."
— 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:
"They hold sessions regularly and “campus” women for staying out late—and they do their best campussing at those times when they are sleepiest and meanest from being out until three and four themselves the night before."
— 1932, The Syllabus, volume 48, page 444:
"A secondary punishment was ‘campussing’, or confinement to a campus; and for the most trivial offences the treatment was a withering harangue from Mrs Wilmington, sometimes lasting for over an hour."
— 1955, The Twentieth Century, volume 157, page 278:
"SM has been very patient but just last Friday one of them was campussed for two weeks with an automatic two day suspension if he didn't heed the campussing because of repeated contempt for fairly easy to fulfill sentences."
— 1996 January 30, Maggie Smith, Evergreen School, quotee, “Attendance Issues”, in The 1996 Collection: Prepared for Sudbury Schools and Planning Groups, Framingham, Massachusetts: Sudbury Valley School Press, published August 1996, →ISBN, page 131:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Students often study at the library in the center of the university ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The university ____ is very large and has many beautiful buildings.