campus

noun, often attributive cam·pus \ ˈkam-pəs \

Updated on: 12 Apr 2018

Definition of campus

1 : the grounds and buildings of a university, college, or school

2 : a university, college, or school viewed as an academic, social, or spiritual entity

3 : grounds that resemble a campus

a hospital campus

a landscaped corporate campus

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Examples of campus in a Sentence

Visitors crowded the campus on graduation day.
Rallies were held on college campuses across the country.
We walked around the campus on our first day.

Recent Examples of campus from the Web

With its campus and alumni still buzzing over the UMBC men’s basketball team’s landmark NCAA tournament upset of No.

— rich scherr, baltimoresun.com, "Three weeks after NCAA tournament shocker, UMBC men's lacrosse stuns No. 1 Albany, 11-7," 7 Apr. 2018
Its new campus in Gilbert, Arizona, is set to open for the fall 2018 semester.

— mará rose williams, kansascity, "Park University opening what will become its first residential campus outside KC area | The Kansas City Star," 7 Apr. 2018
Oak Park and River Forest High School is considering making the biggest changes to its campus in 50 years.

— chicago tribune, chicagotribune.com, "Letter: Become part of the discussion at Imagine OPRF’s third Community Conversation," 6 Apr. 2018
Its flat-screen manufacturing campus in southeastern Wisconsin could eclipse Boeing’s footprint in Seattle, Tesla’s in Nevada and some of the biggest factories in China.

— john schmid, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Foxconn's promised jobs boom could miss neighboring city Racine," 6 Apr. 2018
Students at four high schools in Northeast Houston had to consolidate and split school days after two of their campuses flooded.

— shelby webb, Houston Chronicle, "As STAAR testing begins, districts hit by Harvey unsure how scores will affect them," 5 Apr. 2018
And feminism cements itself in Greer’s identity when Faith Frank comes to her campus.

— constance grady, Vox, "The Female Persuasion is a brutally intimate novel about intergenerational feminism," 5 Apr. 2018
Today, most of the 600 students who attend City-as-School spend about two days per week in traditional classes at its Greenwich Village campus.

— john hanc, New York Times, "Building Skills Outside the Classroom With New Ways of Learning," 5 Apr. 2018
The school is also in the process of selling several acres on its campus to a developer who plans to build a neighborhood of eight single-family homes.

— laura krantz, BostonGlobe.com, "UMass might help Mount Ida students finish degrees," 5 Apr. 2018

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Origin and Etymology of campus

Latin, plain

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First Known Use: 1774

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campus

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Definition of campus for English Language Learners

: the area and buildings around a university, college, school, etc.

CAMPUS Defined for Kids

campus

noun cam·pus \ ˈkam-pəs \

Definition of campus for Students

: the grounds and buildings of a college or school

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