CONCENTRATION CAMP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does concentration camp mean? 

• CONCENTRATION CAMP (noun)
  The noun CONCENTRATION CAMP has 2 senses:

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

2. a situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions

  Familiarity information: CONCENTRATION CAMP used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCENTRATION CAMP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

concentration camp; stockade

Hypernyms ("concentration camp" is a kind of...):

camp (a penal institution (often for forced labor))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concentration camp"):

death camp (a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed)

Instance hyponyms:

Auschwitz (a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II)

Belsen (a Nazi concentration camp for Jews created in northwestern Germany during World War II)

Buchenwald (a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in World War II that was located in central Germany)

Dachau (a concentration camp for Jews created by the Nazis near Munich in southern Germany)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("concentration camp" is a kind of...):

miserableness; misery; wretchedness (a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune)