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
Relevance
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of concentration camps
In January 2024, after coming under fire for reposting an antisemitic conspiracy theory on X, Musk visited Nazi concentration camps in Europe.
—
Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
To what degree was infamous filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl a Nazi collaborator who knew about Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps?
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
When women and men speaking Cervantes’ tongue are sent to concentration camps like the South Florida Detention Facility or CECOT, then what use is a sonnet?
—Ed Simon
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
Eight months later, nearly every Jew who was left in Hamburg was deported to concentration camps, including her entire extended family who was murdered, except for one surviving aunt.
—Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
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
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
Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
To what degree was infamous filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl a Nazi collaborator who knew about Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps?
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
When women and men speaking Cervantes’ tongue are sent to concentration camps like the South Florida Detention Facility or CECOT, then what use is a sonnet?
—Ed Simon
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
Eight months later, nearly every Jew who was left in Hamburg was deported to concentration camps, including her entire extended family who was murdered, except for one surviving aunt.
—Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
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
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
Cite this Entry
“Concentration camps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camps. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share