concentration camp
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A camp where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees etc., are detained for the purpose of confining them in one place, typically with inadequate or inhumane facilities.
noun
A situation of overcrowding and extremely harsh conditions.
Example Sentences
- "A concentration camp is a place, near the scene of intended operations or near an embarkation point, where troops are assembled for immediate use against the enemy or for transport to an over-sea theater of operations."
- "1930, Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life, Chapter XIV The 21st Lancers… …journey forward by nine days' march to the advanced concentration camp just north of the Shabluka Cataract."
- "All Cubans (men, women, and children) were ordered to move into garrisoned Spanish towns or concentration camps."
- "The state of the proletarian dictatorship is depicted by Trotsky as a huge permanent concentration camp in which the government exercises absolute power over every aspect of the citizens' lives and in particular decides how much work they shall do, of what kind and in what places."
- "In 1945, overseen by Alfred Hitchcock, a crack team of British film-makers went to Germany to document the horror of the concentration camps."
- "What we should be doing with China is understanding they are a superpower, they are a strong economy. We want to be working with them. We certainly don't want a Cold War. But we should be speaking out against human rights abuses. When you put into concentration camps, you know, or at least lock up, I don't know, a million Muslims there, somebody's got to speak out about that."