concentration camp
11concentration camp — noun Date: 1901 a camp where persons (as prisoners of war, political prisoners, or refugees) are detained or confined …
12concentration camp — concen tration .camp n a prison where political prisoners and other people who are not soldiers are kept and treated cruelly, especially during a war …
13concentration camp — concen tration ,camp noun count a place like a prison where ordinary people are kept during a war and where they have to live in very unpleasant conditions …
14concentration camp — internment camp in which people are imprisoned and often tortured; any of a number of camps set up by the German Nazis during World War II for holding Jews and other peoples before killing them …
15concentration camp — noun a camp for detaining political prisoners or persecuted minorities, especially in Nazi Germany …
16concentration camp — concentra′tion camp n. gov a guarded compound for the confinement of political prisoners, minorities, etc., esp. those established by the Nazis for the internment and persecution of prisoners • Etymology: 1900–05 …
17concentration camp — /kɒnsənˈtreɪʃən kæmp/ (say konsuhn trayshuhn kamp) noun 1. (in the Boer War, 1899–1902) a camp where non combatants, mainly Boer women and children, were held by the British. 2. a guarded enclosure for the detention or imprisonment of political… …
18concentration camp — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. see prison …
19concentration camp — noun (C) a prison where large numbers of ordinary people are kept, especially during a war, and are treated extremely cruelly …
20Auschwitz concentration camp — Auschwitz and Auschwitz Birkenau redirect here. For the town, see Oświęcim. Distinguish from Austerlitz. Or see Auschwitz (disambiguation) Auschwitz Concentration camp …