concentration camp
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.
concentration camps
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pluralof concentration camp.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“Hotel Exile” also relates the extraordinary transformation of the hotel into a center for those returning from concentration camps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
If we look at that “Amazonification,” different concentration camps evolved over time in different ways.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2026
Appropriately, Veiel foregrounds the unavoidable truth: Extras in her movies ended up at concentration camps, something she lied about.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
Stoppard was not fully aware of his Jewish heritage until the 1990s, when a Czech relative told him all four of his grandparents and three aunts had been killed in Nazi concentration camps.
From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025
I've read about the monstrous things that were done in the concentration camps in WWII.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
