campus
The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.
Noun 2 meanings
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.”
An institution of higher education and its ambiance.
“During the late 1960s, many an American campus was in a state of turmoil.”
Verb 2 meanings
To confine (a student) to campus as a punishment.
To use a campus board, or to climb without feet as one would on a campus board.
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.
CAMPUS at a glance
CAMPUS has 6 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (C 3 + A 1 + M 3 + P 3 + U 1 + S 1) and 16 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,865 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with campus
All rhymes- CORPUS10
- OCTOPUS11
- LUPUS7
- OPUS6
- HIPPOCAMPUS24
- PLATYPUS15
- RUMPUS10
- PAPPUS12
- XENOPUS16
- PRIAPUS11
- GRAMPUS12
- CARPUS10
One letter away
- CAMPOS12
- CARPUS10
- WAMPUS13
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