campus

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The grounds and buildings of a university, college, or school.

   The university campus has a library, several cafes, and a sports center.

2. 2
   noun

   A university or college seen as a place and community of student life.

   During the late 1960s, many an American campus was in a state of unrest.

Borrowed from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of camp and champ. First used in its current sense in reference to Princeton University in the 1770s.

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