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campus orig. U.S.|ˈkæmpəs|
[a. L. campus field: see camp n.2 First used at Princeton, New Jersey.]
The grounds of a college or university; the open space between or around the buildings; a separate part of a university. Hence allusively, university or college life or people. Also attrib.
1774in J. F. Hageman Hist. Princeton (1879) I. 102 Having made a fire in the Campus, we there burnt near a dozen pounds [of tea]. 1826R. Mills Statistics S. Carolina 701 The whole disposed so as to form a hollow square containing about ten acres which is called the Campus. 1833J. Finch Trav. U.S. & Canada 282 In front of the College is a fine campus ornamented with trees. 1879H. J. Vandyke Jr. in Princeton Bk. 382 The central point of the Campus, the hub of the college world, is undoubtedly the big cannon. 1904H. N. Snyder in Sewanee Rev. Jan. 87, I am almost willing to shut my eyes to the excesses of the noisy strenuosity of the athletic mood if it bring into the campus life a warm, vital sense of college unity. 1939Nature 26 Aug. 392/1 Frome Avenue, on the opposite side of which is the [Adelaide] University campus. 1958Times 10 Mar. 12/7 Not only in the cloistered courts of Cambridge but also on college campuses in America. 1958Sunday Times 27 Apr. 20/7 The first walls are rising of Sir Hugh Casson's new arts faculty campus. 1959Listener 19 Feb. 326/2 As in this country, some of the best of this kind of history is written off campus. 1968Brit. Univ. Ann. 30 To my eye, the Birmingham campus has now developed into one of the most attractive in the country.
Hence as v. trans., to confine to the campus (see also quot. 1928). U.S. colloq.
1928Amer. Speech III. 218 When a Freshman is campussed..he is not actually confined to the campus but merely deprived of some privilege or other. 1949‘N. R. Nash’ Young & Fair 79 You've campused Dru Eldridge? |