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See also: Campus and câmpus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of camp and champ.

First used in its current sense in reference to Princeton University in the 1770s.

Pronunciation

Noun

campus (plural campuses or campusses or (nonstandard) campi)

  1. The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.
    The campus is sixty hectares in size.
    • 2013 August 24, Schumpeter, “Mr Geek goes to Washington”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8850:
      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.
    • 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:
      In addition to this signage there are promotional videos broadcast in English on television screens around the campus.
  2. An institution of higher education and its ambiance.
    During the late 1960s, many an American campus was in a state of turmoil.

Usage notes

  • The Latinate plural form campi is sometimes used, particularly with respect to colleges or universities; however, it is sometimes frowned upon. By contrast, the common plural form campuses is universally accepted.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Cebuano: kampus
  • → Dutch: campus
  • → German: Campus
  • → Japanese: キャンパス (kyanpasu)
  • → Korean: 캠퍼스 (kaempeoseu)
  • → Malay: kampus

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Verb

campus (third-person singular simple present campuses or campusses, present participle campusing or campussing, simple past and past participle campused or campussed)

  1. To confine (a student) to campus as a punishment.
    • 1932, The Syllabus, volume 48, page 444:
      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.
    • 1955, The Twentieth Century, volume 157, page 278:
      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.
    • 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:
      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.
  2. (climbing) To use a campus board, or to climb without feet as one would on a campus board.
    • 2010, Stewart M. Green, Ian Spencer-Green, Knack Rock Climbing: A Beginner’s Guide, page 30:
      It is climbed or "campused" with only your arms and hands.
    • 2016, Eric Horst, The Rock Climber's Exercise Guide, page 159:
      Boulder campusing is a popular indoor training exercise among advanced climbers—it's also a heck of a lot of fun if you're strong enough to do it right!
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Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkampus/ [ˈkãm.pus]
  • Rhymes: -ampus
  • Syllabification: cam‧pus

Noun

campus m (plural campus)

  1. campus (grounds or property of a school, etc)

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish campus, from Latin campus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kampus̺/ [kãm.pus̺]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ampus̺, -us̺
  • Hyphenation: cam‧pus

Noun

campus inan

  1. campus

Declension

More information indefinite, singular ...

Further reading

  • “campus”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus.

Pronunciation

Noun

campus m (invariable)

  1. campus

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English campus, from Latin campus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑm.pʏs/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: cam‧pus

Noun

campus m (plural campussen, diminutive campusje n)

  1. campus

Derived terms

  • campusuniversiteit

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus. Doublet of camp and the inherited champ.

Pronunciation

Noun

campus m (invariable)

  1. campus (grounds of a university)

Descendants

Further reading

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