prison camp

1. 1.

   a camp for prisoners of war

   Synonymsinternment campprisoner of war campPOW camp

   Broadercamp

   Narrowergulag
2. 2.

   a camp for trustworthy prisoners employed in government projects

   Synonymswork campprison farm

   Broadercamp

Questions about prison camp

What does prison camp mean?

prison camp means "a camp for prisoners of war". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for prison camp?

Close synonyms include internment camp, prisoner of war camp, POW camp, work camp, prison farm. 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 prison camp a common word?

prison camp is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.