concentration camp

[ kon-suhn-trey-shuhn kamp ]

/ ˌkɒn sənˈtreɪ ʃən ˌkæmp /

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noun

a 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.

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Origin of concentration camp

First recorded in 1900–05, applied originally to camps where noncombatants were placed during the Boer War

Words nearby concentration camp

concent, concenter, concentrate, concentrated, concentration, concentration camp, concentration cell, concentration gradient, concentrative, concentre, concentric

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How to use concentration camp in a sentence

Sixty-three men from the concentration camp were arrested and found guilty of resisting the draft after the Roosevelt administration found it expedient to throw the very people it persecuted onto the wartime front lines for the United States.
At a shameful detention camp, an improbable football team|Samuel Freedman|March 5, 2021|Washington Post
Between January 7-11, the merchandise platform Teespring banned 26 users from its site for selling merchandise that made reference to the concentration camp Auschwitz.
‘On a learning curve here’: E-commerce platforms still struggling with hateful listings|Erika Wheless|January 14, 2021|Digiday
He, like many soldiers, had never even heard of concentration camps.
How Dachau’s American Liberator Protected Nazi POWs|Pallabi Munsi|November 11, 2020|Ozy
According to the ratings – which still regulate theater releases – penises can be shown in nonsexual situations, such as when they appear during a concentration camp scene in “Schindler’s List.”
More Penises Are Appearing On TV And In Film – But Why Are Nearly All Of Them Prosthetic?|LGBTQ-Editor|October 10, 2020|No Straight News

It culminates in a mission where you are liberating a concentration camp.
Video Games May Be Key to Keeping World War II Memory Alive. Here Are 5 WWII Games Worth Playing, According to a Historian|Olivia B. Waxman|August 27, 2020|Time
Within a concentration camp, would someone make a joke about the number, the tattooed number?
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination|Mindy Farabee|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She described the influence of her mother, a concentration camp survivor.
Live from San Antonio: Women in the World Texas!|Women in the World|October 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When Norman Manea was five years old, he was shipped to a concentration camp in Transnistria, Ukraine.
Norman Manea Survived the Nazis and the Communists and Lived to Write About It|Costica Bradatan|April 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Camp Liberty was “a concentration camp” and “an extermination camp,” he said.
Iranian Bombs and Black Swans in the Nuclear Negotiations|Christopher Dickey|December 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
After a while, it becomes clear that this was his adolescent attempt to imagine what it was like to be in a concentration camp.
Marco Roth’s Book Bag: The Anti-Memoir Memoir|Marco Roth|October 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST
We were only thirty miles from the concentration camp at Dachau, but we knew nothing about it at this time.
The Biography of a Rabbit|Roy Benson
Some seven hundred and fifty died while in this concentration camp.
The Soul of John Brown|Stephen Graham
The pallor and gauntness of the concentration camp lay upon him, but his race was used to oppression.
Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940|Various
The bloodboltered shambles in act five is a forecast of the concentration camp sung by Mr Swinburne.
Ulysses|James Joyce
This was the concentration camp whence brigades were despatched for a spell of trench-digging and guard duty at the outpost line.
"Over There" with the Australians|R. Hugh Knyvett

British Dictionary definitions for concentration camp

concentration camp

noun

a guarded prison camp in which nonmilitary prisoners are held, esp one of those in Nazi Germany in which millions were exterminated

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Cultural definitions for concentration camp

concentration 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.)

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