noun
campus
KAM-puhs
noun
1
The grounds and buildings of a school, college, or university.
"The new library sits at the heart of the campus."
"Students walked between lectures across the leafy campus."
verb
1
To restrict a student to the school grounds as a punishment.
"He was campused for a week after missing curfew."
How to Use Campus
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe physical site of a college or university, including its buildings and grounds.
Common pairings
on campus
campus life
university campus
Word Forms
campused past tense, campussed past tense, campuses plural, campusses plural, campi plural, campuses singular, campusses singular
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin campus, "field", first applied to a college grounds at Princeton University in the 1770s.