prison camp

English

Noun

prison camp (plural prison camps)

1. A camp in which either prisoners of war or political prisoners are interned.
2. (US) A low-security federal prison.

   Coordinate terms: (high-security federal prison) penitentiary, (higehst security) supermax

Related terms

• concentration camp
• gulag
• internment camp
• labour camp
• prisoner-of-war camp

Translations

camp for prisoners

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: fangelejr c
• Dutch: gevangenenkamp (nl) n
• Faroese: fangalega f, fangatippi n
• Finnish: vankileiri (fi)
• French: camp de prisonniers m
• German: Gefangenenlager (de) n
• Italian: campo di prigionìa m
• Japanese: 捕虜収容所 (ほりょしゅうようしょ, horyoshūyōshiyo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fangeleir m

  Nynorsk: fangeleir m

• Polish: obóz jeniecki m
• Swedish: fångläger (sv) n

References

• “prison camp”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.