campus

4 definitions found

campus - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Campus \Cam"pus\, n. [L., a field.]
     1. The principal grounds of a college or school, between the
        buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college
        campus.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. a college or university.
        [PJC]
  
     3. 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]
  
     4. higher education considered as a whole; as, the financial
        effects of research cutbacks on the campus.
        [PJC]
  
     5. a business site with pleasant landscaping; as, the Squibb
        research campus at Princeton.
        [PJC]

campus - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  campus
      n 1: a field on which the buildings of a university are situated

campus - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Campus, IL (village, FIPS 10916)
    Location: 41.02481 N, 88.30792 W
    Population (1990): 137 (57 housing units)
    Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

campus - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "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