campus

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.

   The campus is sixty hectares in size.

2. 2
   noun

   An institution of higher education and its ambiance.

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

3. 3
   verb

   To confine (a student) to campus as a punishment.

   They hold sessions regularly and “campus” women for staying out late—and they do their best campussing at those times when they are sleepiest and meanest from being out until three and four themselves the night before.

4. 4
   verb

   To use a campus board, or to climb without feet as one would on a campus board.

   It is climbed or "campused" with only your arms and hands.

5. 5
   noun

   a field on which the buildings of a university are situated

Etymology

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