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Dictionary: cam·pus   (kăm'pəs) pronunciation
n., pl., -pus·es.
  1. The grounds of a school, college, university, or hospital.
  2. A college or university: campuses that are located across the state.

[Latin, field.]


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Two or more buildings located in close proximity. For example, a campus backbone implies a high-speed network running between all the buildings. The term used to refer only to an educational environment, but businesses adopted it a while ago to make their workplace sound friendlier.

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Architecture: campus
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The grounds and buildings of a university, college, or school.


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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: The grounds and buildings of a school or college.

pronunciation The college campus was lovely in the fall.

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Union College (1950), home to the first comprehensively planned campus in the United States[1]

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings. The definition currently defines a collection of buildings that belong to a given institution, either academic or non-academic.

The word first was adopted to describe a particular urban space at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) during the early decades of the eighteenth century. Some other American colleges later adopted the word to describe individual fields at their own institutions, but "campus" did not yet describe the whole university property. A school might have one space called a campus, one called a field, and another called a yard.

The meaning expanded to include the whole institutional property during the twentieth century, with the old meaning persisting into the 1950s in some places. Sometimes the lands on which company office buildings sit, along with the buildings, are called campuses. The Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington, as well as hospitals use the term to describe the territory of their facilities. The word "campus" has also been applied to European universities, although most such institutions are characterized by ownership of individual buildings in urban settings rather than park-like lawns in which buildings are placed.

References

  1. ^ Turner, Paul V. (1996). Joseph Ramée: International Architect of the Revolutionary Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 190. 

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - universitetsområde, plæne i universitetsområde, selvstændig afdeling af universitet

idioms:

  • campus environment    universitets computer netværk

Nederlands (Dutch)
campus, studentenleven

Français (French)
n. - campus

idioms:

  • campus environment    (Univ) important réseau informatique universitaire

Deutsch (German)
n. - Campus, Hochschulgelände, akademische Welt

idioms:

  • campus environment    großes (akademisches) Netzwerk

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - πανεπιστημιούπολη, χώρος πανεπιστημίου

idioms:

  • campus environment    πανεπιστημιακό δίκτυο Η/Υ

Italiano (Italian)
campus, città universitaria

Português (Portuguese)
n. - área (f) da universidade, campo (m) para esportes, campus (m)

Русский (Russian)
университетская территория

Español (Spanish)
n. - recinto universitario

idioms:

  • campus environment    red académica de computación

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - universitetsområde, universitet, universitetsvärld, campus

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
校园, 校区, 大学生活, 大学, 学院, 分校

idioms:

  • campus environment    校园环境

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 校園, 校區, 大學生活, 大學, 學院, 分校

idioms:

  • campus environment    校園環境

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 교정, 대학

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 構内, 分校, 大学

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) حرم الجامعه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אוניברסיטה, קריה, קמפוס‬


 
 
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