Prison Camp (Noun)
Meaning 1
A camp for prisoners of war.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The prisoners were marched across the border and held in a notorious prison camp for months before their release.
- During the war, many soldiers were taken captive and forced to live in harsh conditions within the enemy's prison camp.
- Conditions at the prison camp were brutal, with overcrowding and insufficient sanitation leading to widespread disease.
- After years of imprisonment, the survivors of the prison camp returned home as heroes, their experiences forever etched in their memories.
- Historians estimate that over a million people perished in the prison camp before it was finally liberated by the advancing army.
Synonyms
Meaning 2
A camp for trustworthy prisoners employed in government projects.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The prisoners in the camp were assigned to work on the new highway construction project.
- He was sent to a prison camp to help build a new airport in the rural area near his hometown.
- Most prisoners in the camp were low-risk offenders employed in the forestry service, planting trees for reforestation.
- She spent two years in the prison camp, during which she worked in the nearby hospital as a nurse's assistant.
- The government decided to build a new prison camp near the dam, where inmates would be employed in the dam's maintenance and operation.