单词 | campus |
释义 | campusn. Originally U.S. 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 attributive. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > area of yard1637 campus1774 society > education > place of education > college or university > [noun] > life campus1904 1774 in J. F. Hageman Hist. Princeton (1879) I. 102 Having made a fire in the Campus, we there burnt near a dozen pounds [of tea]. 1826 R. Mills Statistics S. Carolina 701 The whole disposed so as to form a hollow square containing about ten acres which is called the Campus. 1833 J. Finch Trav. U.S. & Canada 282 In front of the College is a fine campus ornamented with trees. 1879 H. J. Vandyke Jr. in Princeton Bk. 382 The central point of the Campus, the hub of the college world, is undoubtedly the big cannon. 1897 Scribner's Mag. July 23/1 Groups of men begin to thicken about the campus. 1904 H. 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. 1939 Nature 26 Aug. 392/1 Frome Avenue, on the opposite side of which is the [Adelaide] University campus. 1958 Times 10 Mar. 12/7 Not only in the cloistered courts of Cambridge but also on college campuses in America. 1958 Sunday Times 27 Apr. 20/7 The first walls are rising of Sir Hugh Casson's new arts faculty campus. 1959 Listener 19 Feb. 326/2 As in this country, some of the best of this kind of history is written off campus. 1968 Brit. Univ. Ann. 30 To my eye, the Birmingham campus has now developed into one of the most attractive in the country. Derivatives campus v. U.S. colloquial transitive to confine to the campus (see also quot. 1928). ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [verb (transitive)] > disciplinary measures sconce1617 proctorize1833 gate1835 proggins1892 prog1901 campus1928 1928 Amer. Speech 3 218 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? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1774 |
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