campus – English noun declension

English noun forms of campus

Noun: campus
Singularcampus
Pluralcampuses; campusses

Sample Sentences

  • The campus is sixty hectares in size.
  • be on campus
  • From their corporate campuses on the west coast, America’s technology entrepreneurs used to ignore faraway Washington, DC—or mention the place only to chastise it for holding back innovation with excessive regulation. They have, at times, invested in the low politics of self-interested lobbying […]. Yet unlike Wall Street[…]tech tycoons have remained largely aloof from the broader affairs of the nation’s capital. [2013 August 24, Schumpeter, “Mr Geek goes to Washington”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8850:]
  • In addition to this signage there are promotional videos broadcast in English on television screens around the campus. [2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:]
  • During the late 1960s, many an American campus was in a state of turmoil.

Nouns inflected like campus

omnibus, bonus, campus,

Etymology

1. Borrowed from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of camp and champ.
2. First used in its current sense in reference to Princeton University in the 1770s. See: Latin Nouns 'campus'.

Verbs referencing "campus"

Dutch Nouns campus, Romanian Nouns campus, Finnish Nouns kampus, German Nouns Campus.