Definitions for campus
ˈkæm pəscam·pus

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. campusnoun

   a field on which the buildings of a university are situated

GCIDE(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Campusnoun

   a college or university.

2. Campusnoun

   a division of a university with its own buildings and a separate faculty, especially one separated geographically from other divisiona, but sharing top administration with other units of the university; as, the Newark campus of Rutgers.

3. Campusnoun

   higher education considered as a whole; as, the financial effects of research cutbacks on the campus.

4. Campusnoun

   a business site with pleasant landscaping; as, the Squibb research campus at Princeton.

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. campusnoun

   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.

2. campusnoun

   An institution of higher education and its ambiance.

   During the late 1960s, many an American campus was in a state of turmoil.

3. campusverb

   To confine to campus as a punishment.

4. Etymology: From campus.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Campusnoun

   the principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus

2. Etymology: [L., a field.]

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1. Campus

   A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls, student centers or dining halls, and park-like settings. The definition currently describes a collection of buildings that belong to a given institution, either academic or non-academic. The word derives from a Latin word for "field" and was first used to describe the grounds of a college at the College of New Jersey during the 18th century. Some other American colleges later adopted the word to describe individual fields at their own institutions, but "campus" did not yet describe the whole university property. A school might have one space called a campus, one called a field, and another called a yard. The meaning expanded to include the whole institutional property during the 20th century, with the old meaning persisting into the 1950s in some places. Sometimes the lands on which company office buildings sit, along with the buildings, are called campuses. The Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington, as well as hospitals use the term to describe the territory of their facilities. The word "campus" has also been applied to European universities, although most such institutions are characterized by ownership of individual buildings in urban settings rather than park-like lawns in which buildings are placed.

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1. • Field

How to pronounce campus?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say campus in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of campus in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of campus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of campus in a Sentence

1. Stanford UniversityStanford University:

   To ensure the health and safety of our campus community given the recent coronavirus developments, all spring quarter courses will be delivered remotely and guidelines have been recommended for campus gatherings.

2. Roy Gutterman:

   The answer to this is not punishment, which would run afoul of the First Amendment because this involves a public university. The answer is to counter the speech and confront the speech. This could be the subject of campus-wide discussions.

3. Tracey Vitchers:

   Having President Biden as a part of the summit is critical to elevating the importance of sexual assault prevention for our students and university administrations, it's important that students know President Biden has their back when it comes to campus sexual assault prevention and survivor support.

4. Carol Stabile:

   When you treat campus sexual assault as a public relations problem, then you have to shut people up because it gets in the way of your message and it threatens the brand, what I think is so tragic about this is there are so many people who are not going to say anything because they're afraid for their jobs.

5. Kristen Waggoner:

   These students were not only physically intimidating the other students and the speakers, they were pounding on the walls, blocking the exits, and disrupting the event throughout. … It shouldn't take place on a law student campus in the law school classroom.

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