campus

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cam=pus

CIDE DICTIONARY

campus, n. [L., a field.].

•  The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.  [1913 Webster]
•  a college or university.  [PJC]
•  a division of a university with its own buildings and a separate faculty, especially one separated geographically from other divisiona, but sharing top administration with other units of the university; as, the Newark campus of Rutgers.  [PJC]
•  higher education considered as a whole; as, the financial effects of research cutbacks on the campus.  [PJC]
•  a business site with pleasant landscaping; as, the Squibb research campus at Princeton.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

campus, n. (pl. campuses)
1 the grounds of a university or college.
2 esp. US a university, esp. as a teaching institution.

Etymology

L, = field

THESAURUS

campus

agora, amphitheater, arena, athletic field, auditorium, background, bear garden, bowl, boxing ring, bull ring, canvas, circus, classroom building, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, course, field, floor, forum, ground, gym, gymnasium, hall, hippodrome, lists, little red schoolhouse, locale, marketplace, mat, milieu, open forum, palaestra, parade ground, pit, place, platform, precinct, prize ring, public square, purlieu, range, ring, scene, scene of action, scenery, school building, schoolhouse, setting, site, sphere, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, terrain, theater, tilting ground, tiltyard, walk, wrestling ring

ROGET THESAURUS

campus

Arena

N arena, field, platform, scene of action, theater, walk, course, hustings, stare, boards, amphitheater, Coliseum, Colosseum, Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course, corso, turf, cockpit, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring, lists, tiltyard, tilting ground, Campus Martins, Champ de Allars, campus, boxing ring, canvas, theater of war, seat of war, battle-field, battle-ground, field of battle, field of slaughter, Aceldama, camp, the enemy's camp, trusting place.