Synonyms of concentration camp

concentration camp

noun

as in prison camp

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 camp
• work camp
• labor camp
• big house
• bull pen
• jail
• pen
• stalag
• stockade
• penitentiary
• prison
• tank
• cooler
• lockup
• brig
• gulag
• calaboose
• cage
• jug
• guardroom
• coop
• hock
• stir
• slammer
• jailhouse
• cell
• bastille
• can
• clink
• joint
• hoosegow
• pokey
• bridewell
• tolbooth
• ward
• quod
• slam
• nick
• hold
• training school
• block
• reform school
• guardhouse
• hulk(s)
• keep
• hole
• glasshouse
• dungeon
• reformatory
• oubliette

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of concentration camp

Some detractors even characterized it as a concentration camp. — The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026

The final pages offered a physical and philosophical account of the concentration camps that was as disturbing in its implications as the newsreels shown in theatres at the war’s end. — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

Played with unctuous authority by the multilingual Danish performer Claes Bang, Kersten claims to have used his influence to obtain the freedom of thousands of concentration camp prisoners, and is obsessed with winning a Nobel Prize. — Alissa Simon, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026

From 1941, when the systematic killing of Jews and other groups began as part of Nazi government policy, until the liberation of concentration camps in 1945, six million Jews would be killed. — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026