prison camp
26
5.3
- noun
- /ˈprɪzən kæmp/
:
campo de prisioneros
- "I was in a prison camp, not any place to get souvenirs."
- North Korean prison camp
Ship me off to North Florida, went to federal prison camp.
- Ship me off to North Florida, went to federal prison camp.
- He is taking immigrants off the street without due process and sending them to concentration prison camps in El Salvador.
- But the same time, you know, I can't have a conversation with Hitler and not ask about the prison camps.
- And I, I after when you're one year short of your release date, you can get a furlough from a federal prison camp.
- He got sent to basically a prison camp and he got out and he is pissed and he's like, you know what?
- But if you're basically like in the North Korean prison camp with lights shining at you all night long, you can't sleep.
- Solzhenitsyn spent most of his life in a prison camp, enduring terrible punishment, starvation, dire and brutal beatings.
- There's a little bit of overlap in the reference to, you know, the Admiral Stockdale, the fighter pilot who got shot down, spent time in a Vietnamese prison camp.
- Yeah, yeah, If I'm not mistaken, that's going to be the likes of us that go in the prison camps and the barges and they'll take over.
- We were put into prison camps, guarded over by soldiers with machine guns pointed down that us from sentry towers.
Examples
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Solzhenitsyn spent most of his life in a prison camp, enduring terrible punishment, starvation, dire and brutal beatings.
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Some were simply murdered, many more were arrested and placed into prison camps where many died.
Blog text (4) -
And a year in the prison camp.
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Only this time you wind up in a Japanese prison camp.
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I spent ten months in a German prison camp with nothing to stop the pain.
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Harry was in the army for four years, and three of 'em were spent in a Japanese prison camp!
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Anyhow, I was in a German prison camp for the better part of a year.
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The British commander of Singapore has just been released from a prison camp.
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But I was soon caught by the Russian soldiers and taken to a prison camp in Siberia.
Fiction book (2001) -
After being captured, he spent five years in a prison camp where conditions were extremely harsh.
Synonyms
223
5.6
A place or situation that makes someone feel trapped
64
8.6
A prison on a ship or at a navy base
49
5.6
A place where many people are imprisoned without trial in harsh, crowded conditions
42
4.1
A building where police keep people who are waiting for trial or serving a sentence
36
4.6
A place where people are kept for a short time, like prisoners or migrants, while their case is decided
23
9.9
A system of prison camps in the Soviet Union that held people who opposed the government
19
7.5
A prison where people are forced to work, often for political reasons
15
6.3
A locked place where young people who break the law are kept
10
7.6
A place where people are held under guard during war or for political reasons
10
4.2
A building like a prison where people are kept as punishment and given training
7
8.3
A guarded camp where prisoners are kept in harsh conditions
7
8.2
A place, often on an island, where the government keeps people sent there for crimes and they cannot leave
6
7.0
A camp where prisoners must do hard physical work
5
4.3
A camp that holds soldiers captured during a war
4
3.2
A place that holds soldiers captured by the enemy during a war
2
9.9
A place where a government holds people and forces them to change their beliefs
2
4.9
A place where people who broke the law are kept as punishment or while they wait for trial
1
6.8
A place in the countryside where people who broke the law live and work on farms
1
7.7
A place where young people who broke the law are kept by the court for a short time
1
6.2
A place where young people who broke the law stay temporarily under court care
A place where people are kept by the government and forced to change their beliefs or behavior
How Restricted
- Specialized
12
7.9
26
5.3
10
7.6
- UK
36
4.6
33
4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a camp where prisoners are kept' is directly and transparently built from combining 'prison' (an institution housing punished people) and 'camp' (a site with temporary shelters). This regular noun+noun composition is common cross-linguistically and follows predictable English compounding, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Prison camp comes from places used in war where captured people were held in tents or fenced areas under guard. The image of a guarded camp acting as a prison explains why it means 'a camp where prisoners are kept'.