campus

Forms

1.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.
- In addition to this signage there are promotional videos broadcast in English on television screens around the campus.
2.An institution of higher education and its ambiance.
- During the late 1960s, many an American campus was in a state of turmoil.

1.To confine (a student) to campus as a punishment.
- A secondary punishment was ‘campussing’, or confinement to a campus; and for the most trivial offences the treatment was a withering harangue from Mrs Wilmington, sometimes lasting for over an hour.
- 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.
2.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.
- Boulder campusing is a popular indoor training exercise among advanced climbers, it's also a heck of a lot of fun if you're strong enough to do it right!

Uncommon· #2156

Borrowed from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of camp and champ.

First used in its current sense in reference to Princeton University in the 1770s.