concentration camp

Noun

Meaning

a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)

a situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

stockade brig penitentiary POW camp lockup prison camp pen jail confinement dungeon Auschwitz encampment slaughterhouse reformatory
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Antonyms

liberty release freedom exception relief liberation
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Hypernyms

camp misery wretchedness miserableness

Hyponyms

death camp

Examples

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment. Arthur Miller

An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march. Simon Blackburn

As Minister of Economics, Funk accelerated the pace of rearmament and as Reichsbank president banked for the SS the gold teeth fillings of concentration camp victims, probably the most ghoulish collateral in banking history. Walther Funk

Please report to RF SS and to the Fuehrer that all arrangements against Jews, political and concentration camp internees in the Protectorate have been taken care of by me personally today. Ernst Kaltenbrunner

... carry out merciless mass terror against the kulaks, priests and White Guards; unreliable elements to be locked up in a concentration camp outside the town. Vladimir Lenin

The idea of a concentration camp is excellent. Joseph Stalin

Close letter words and terms

concentrating on concentration concentration ability concentration cell concentration effect concentration gradient