单词 | concentration camp |
释义 | concentration campSEE SYNONYMS FOR concentration camp ON THESAURUS.COM nouna guarded compound for the mass detention without hearings or the imprisonment without trial of civilians, as refugees, members of ethnic minorities, political opponents, etc. a Nazi prison camp or death camp prior to and during World War II. Origin of concentration campFirst recorded in 1900–05, applied originally to camps where noncombatants were placed during the Boer War Words nearby concentration campconcent, concenter, concentrate, concentrated, concentration, concentration camp, concentration cell, concentration gradient, concentrative, concentre, concentric Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for concentration campconcentration camp nouna guarded prison camp in which nonmilitary prisoners are held, esp one of those in Nazi Germany in which millions were exterminated Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for concentration campconcentration camp A place for assembling and confining political prisoners and enemies of a nation. Concentration camps are particularly associated with the rule of the Nazis in Germany, who used them to confine millions of Jews (see also Jews) as a group to be purged from the German nation. Communists, Gypsies, homosexuals, and other persons considered undesirable according to Nazi principles, or who opposed the government, were also placed in concentration camps and eventually executed in large groups. (See Holocaust.) The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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