campus

noun

1. 1

   The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.

   The campus is sixty hectares in size.

   be on campus

   In addition to this signage there are promotional videos broadcast in English on television screens around the campus.

2. 2

   An institution of higher education and its ambiance.

   During the late 1960s, many an American campus was in a state of turmoil.

verb

1. 1

   To confine (a student) to campus as a punishment.

   They hold sessions regularly and “campus” women for staying out late—and they do their best campussing at those times when they are sleepiest and meanest from being out until three and four themselves the night before.

   A secondary punishment was ‘campussing’, or confinement to a campus; and for the most trivial offences the treatment was a withering harangue from Mrs Wilmington, sometimes lasting for over an hour.

   SM has been very patient but just last Friday one of them was campussed for two weeks with an automatic two day suspension if he didn't heed the campussing because of repeated contempt for fairly easy to fulfill sentences.

2. 2

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

   It is climbed or "campused" with only your arms and hands.

   Boulder campusing is a popular indoor training exercise among advanced climbers—it's also a heck of a lot of fun if you're strong enough to do it right!

Forms

plural

campuses, campusses, campi

past tense

campused, campussed

past participle

campused, campussed

present participle

campusing, campussing

third person singular

campuses, campusses