campus

Definition of campusnext
as in park
the area and buildings around a university, college, school, etc. Visitors crowded the campus on graduation day. Rallies were held on university campuses across the country. We walked around the campus on our first day.

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Recent Examples of campus Beverage giant Coca-Cola has sold a piece of its Atlanta corporate campus, allowing its longtime neighbor Georgia Tech to expand. Amy Wenk, AJC.com, 24 July 2026 The gift is the latest step in an aggressive national expansion that has the 153-year-old university opening a New York City campus this fall, planning a graduate campus in West Palm Beach, and building a quantum-computing institute in Chattanooga. Sydney Lake, Fortune, 23 July 2026 Now, the university has revealedt hat the campuses will open next year as the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design. Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 23 July 2026 Start actively recruiting from international branch campuses in your region. Habib Al Souleiman, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for campus
Recent Examples of Synonyms for campus
Noun
  • Goodman even noted that Coors Field is not in the top five home run hitter parks by Baseball Savant’s park factor metric.
    Sam Blum, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • With cars that spin at 72 mph — Universal’s fastest coaster anywhere — Hollywood Drift promises to deliver a park experience that lives up to the franchise’s name.
    Robert Niles, Oc Register, 21 July 2026
Noun
  • Planning Director Cori Reaume told the council that the specific use permits means city staff would consider noise, water systems and effects of data centers on adjacent properties.
    Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 July 2026
  • Other efforts include the suspension of the nightly hotel tax charged at higher-end properties and the removal of the 7% municipal fee applied to hotel and restaurant bills.
    Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
Noun
  • Carrollton Freshman 1,000-yard rusher for the 2025 Class 2A champion.
    Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 27 July 2026
  • The top quarterbacks in college football, especially in a play-action vertical offense, are typically sitting around 10 yards on average target depth.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 26 July 2026
Noun
  • Organizations need a comprehensive inventory of non-human identities across cloud, on-premises and third-party environments.
    Damon Fleury, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • Police called on everyone in a post on X to leave the premises of the event immediately.
    ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026
Noun
  • Alaska’s remote, hard-to-reach capital is the largest state capital in the nation by land mass and there sure is a lot to love.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
  • What was once a busy crossing between the two countries is now a quiet, mine-laden stretch of land closed off to civilians.
    ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026

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“Campus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campus. Accessed 30 Jul. 2026.

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