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Meanings of stockade in English

Portuguese
campo de concentração
Catalan
camp de concentració

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

campo de concentração
Synonyms
Examples for "concentration camp"
Examples for "concentration camp"
1
Memoirs of concentration camp survivors demonstrate the power of the human spirit.
Independent.ie
2
Today marks the 59th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
The Irish Times
3
The Nazis tattooed the arms of concentration camp inmates with a number.
The Guardian
4
A story of being in a concentration camp survival courage and PTSD.
Radio NZ
5
That was why the British finally put her in a concentration camp.
Mobilizing Woman-Power
Usage of stockade in English
1
He's not particularly happy with his new position as prospective stockade commandant.
Under the dome: a novel
2
The girl stood framed in the great gateway of the old stockade.
The Triumph of John Kars: A Story of the Yukon
3
She glanced upward; MacNair had disappeared over the edge of the stockade.
The Gun-Brand
4
This effectually fortified and barricaded the weak place in the stockade fence.
Betty Zane
5
After today I'd rather trust my own stockade when Euben comes around.
Dogs of war
6
The long farms outside the stockade awoke to new vigor as well.
A Little Girl in Old Detroit
7
The oxen plodded out of the stockade and swung to the left.
Man-Size
8
Captain Maguire then headed the charge, and succeeded in capturing the stockade.
Through Three Campaigns: A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti
9
The first evening they talked of the wonder of the ivory stockade.
The Leopard Woman
10
Along the whole line of the manned stockade the whisperings had ceased.
The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows
11
The troopers, enjoying the fun within the stockade, now spread it without.
The Eureka Stockade
12
There were several of them encamped on the outside of the stockade.
The Journey to the Polar Sea
13
With this they were to surmount the stockade and gain the open.
Captain Blood
14
From this swamp the sand-hills sloped north and south to the stockade.
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
15
The remark drove her behind the categorical stockade of her religious merits.
Sir Gibbie
16
The four sides of the stockade had been manned by that time.
The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows
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Stockade through the time
Stockade across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common