- death camp
- `death ,camp noun counta CONCENTRATION CAMP in which prisoners die or are killed
Usage of the words and phrases in modern English. 2013.
Usage of the words and phrases in modern English. 2013.
death camp — death′ camp n. cvb a concentration camp in which the inmates are likely to die or be executed • Etymology: 1940–45 … From formal English to slang
death camp — n. a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners die, as by execution or starvation … English World dictionary
death camp — death camps N COUNT A death camp is a place where prisoners are kept, especially during a war, and where many of them die or are killed … English dictionary
death camp — n a place where large numbers of prisoners are killed or die, usually in a war … Dictionary of contemporary English
death camp — 1944, in reference to the Nazis, probably translating Ger. Todeslager; they also were known as extermination camps (Ger. Vernichtungslager); historians usually count six of them: Auschwitz Birkenau, CheЕ‚mno, BeЕ‚Ејec, Majdanek, Sobibór,… … Etymology dictionary
death camp — noun a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed • Hypernyms: ↑concentration camp, ↑stockade * * * noun : a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed * * * a concentration camp in… … Useful english dictionary
death camp — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms death camp : singular death camp plural death camps a concentration camp in which prisoners die or are killed … English dictionary
death camp — noun Date: 1944 a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed … New Collegiate Dictionary
death camp — a concentration camp in which the inmates are unlikely to survive or to which they have been sent to be executed. [1940 45] * * * … Universalium
death camp — noun a facility built during the Holocaust by the Nazis to kill especially the Jewish people through gassing Syn: extermination camp … Wiktionary