concentration camp

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsstockade

   Broadercamp

   NarrowerAuschwitzBelsenBuchenwaldDachaudeath camp
2. 2.

   a situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions

   Broadermisery

Questions about concentration camp

What does concentration camp mean?

concentration camp means "a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for concentration camp?

Close synonyms include stockade. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is concentration camp a common word?

concentration camp is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.