Synonyms of concentration camps

concentration camps

noun

plural of concentration camp

as in prison camps

a type of prison where large numbers of people who are not soldiers are kept during a war and are usually forced to live in very bad conditions

Related Words

• prison camps
• work camps
• labor camps
• big houses
• bull pens
• stalags
• pens
• jails
• quods
• calabooses
• stockades
• gulags
• penitentiaries
• coolers
• hoosegows
• prisons
• brigs
• bastilles
• tolbooths
• tanks
• jailhouses
• lockups
• hocks
• cages
• jugs
• pokeys
• bridewells
• coops
• cells
• guardrooms
• clinks
• cans
• nicks
• stirs
• joints
• wards
• slammers
• slams
• training schools
• reform schools
• holds
• blocks
• guardhouses
• holes
• keeps
• hulks
• glasshouses
• dungeons
• reformatories
• oubliettes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of concentration camps

Almond and his collaborators, including this season's artist-in-residence, cellist Alexander Hersh, will performs works by Erwin Schulhoff and Viktor Ullmann, who both died in concentration camps. —Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025

Key Background Nazi forces stole extensive collections of art and cultural treasures from across Europe during World War II, primarily from Jewish owners who were sent to concentration camps. —Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025

Case in point, James Moll’s The Last Days, which zeroes in on a handful of Hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust in the last year of World War II, when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary and began mass deportation to concentration camps. —Will Harris, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2025