campus
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- noun
- /ˈkæmpəs/
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campus
- She lives like a couple minutes away from campus.
- campus environment
- university campus
- college campus
No rivers in the middle of our campus, no nasty weather.
- No rivers in the middle of our campus, no nasty weather.
- There's very little support on the college campus for those programs.
- That year we expanded to a second campus at UC Berkeley.
- So we're pulling back into campus and I'm packing my stuff up.
- I get to the campus and it is a ghost town.
- And you're all invited back if you're on campus to hear that.
- And so the hockey team on campus is called the nads.
- But this is now all of us living on a violent campus.
- Don't you know, start attacking people on campus?
Examples
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No, we are covering the university campus there.
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Many events are organized on the university campus to engage students and faculty.
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Get this kid off the stage, and off this campus immediately.
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I get to the campus and it is a ghost town.
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Does he lunch on or off campus?
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Uh, the campus will be a state of the art college with full academic curriculum.
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For many students entering community colleges, the first stop on campus is an assessment center.
Academic text (2011) -
There's very little support on the college campus for those programs.
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This is the most gorgeous campus I've ever seen.
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We rented an apartment near campus, across the street from a grove of wild berries.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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The land around a building that belongs to it, often with gardens
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Campus comes from a Latin word meaning 'field' and shares the same root as camp. So a university campus is like a big field with buildings and paths, which is why the word now means the grounds and buildings of a school.