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

Most effective however is Vanderbilt’s decision to stop the action and simply run the devastating real black-and-white film footage of the slaughter of Jews in the concentration camps. —Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025

Indeed, concentration camps prove to be a viable political option with a friendly Supreme Court ready to affirm President Cadwallader’s unprecedented use of executive orders. —Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025

The federal government imprisoned Hibi and Okubo in concentration camps, first in California and then in Utah; Hayakawa relocated to New Mexico. —Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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

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