death camp

noun

: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed

Examples of death camp in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka death camp began. — USA Today, 7 July 2026

Seven of my eight great-grandparents were murdered in the German death camps of Europe. — Anne Neuberger, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026

The ship came so close that passengers could see the lights of Miami, but it was forced to return to Europe, where more than two hundred and fifty of the passengers eventually died in the Holocaust, in death camps like Auschwitz and Sobibór, or while hiding from the Nazis. — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 26 June 2026

Guttmann, meanwhile, who lost much of his family in the Nazi death camps, would go on to coach for 42 years in 14 countries, winning championships in six of them yet only staying in a single place for more than two years just once. — Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for death camp

• decamp
• encamp
• headlamp
• preamp
• revamp
• timestamp
• amp
• champ
• clamp
• cramp
• damp
• gamp