campus

Definition

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

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.

Example Sentences

• "The campus is sixty hectares in size."
• "From their corporate campuses on the west coast, America’s technology entrepreneurs used to ignore faraway Washington, DC—or mention the place only to chastise it for holding back innovation with excessive regulation. They have, at times, invested in the low politics of self-interested lobbying […]. Yet unlike Wall Street[…]tech tycoons have remained largely aloof from the broader affairs of the nation’s capital."
• "In addition to this signage there are promotional videos broadcast in English on television screens around the campus."

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