campus

Meanings

Noun

• The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.
• An institution of higher education and its ambiance.

Verb

• To confine to campus as a punishment.
• To use a campus board, or to climb without feet as one would on a campus board.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin campus. camp.
• First used in its current sense in reference to Princeton University in the 1770s.