camp.
An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
Meaning & usage
An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
There's a big camp in the woods northwest of here. It's popular with hikers and bushcrafters.
An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
I met my best friend last summer at camp. She lives in Albany and plays the clarinet.
He used to go to summer camp every alternate year.
A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
Signs of enemy recon were found near their camp last week.
A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.
Some say they'll round us all up into camps, but if they come for us, we'll take some out with us, on our way out.
A single hut or shelter.
a hunter’s camp
The company or body of persons encamped.
A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
She's in the camp that speaks as if all vaccines were poisons.
An army.
A site where kangaroos and other macropods rest during the day.
Clipping of campus
Any prison or prison camp.
Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”).
Anywhere that a colonist stayed when away from their permanent residence; such places collectively.
Conflict; battle.
An online game, in some cases roleplay, in which people compete against each other, usually in a structure similar to that of a competition show.
A colony or other group of bats.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English kampe (“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp (“battle, contest, battlefield, open space”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“open field where military exercises are held, level plain”), from Latin campus (“open field, level plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend; crooked”). Reinforced circa 1520 by Middle French can, camp (“place where an army lodges temporarily”), from Old Northern French camp, from the same Latin (whence also French champ from Old French). Cognate with Old High German champf (“battle, struggle”) (German Kampf), Old Norse kapp (“battle”), Old High German hamf (“paralysed, maimed, mutilated”). Doublet of campus and champ. The verb is from Middle English campen, from Old English campian, compian (“to fight, war against”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampōn (“to fight, do battle”), from *kamp (“field, battlefield, battle”), see above. Cognate with Dutch kampen, German kämpfen (“to struggle”), Danish kæmpe, Swedish kämpa.
To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.
To set up a camp.
To afford rest or lodging for.
To stay in an advantageous location.
Some players like to camp next to a power-up's spawning point.
To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.
Go and camp the flag for the win.
Of stock animals, to assemble or rest temporarily at a particular place.
Ellipsis of corpse camp.
To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
To wrangle; argue.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English kampe (“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp (“battle, contest, battlefield, open space”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“open field where military exercises are held, level plain”), from Latin campus (“open field, level plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend; crooked”). Reinforced circa 1520 by Middle French can, camp (“place where an army lodges temporarily”), from Old Northern French camp, from the same Latin (whence also French champ from Old French). Cognate with Old High German champf (“battle, struggle”) (German Kampf), Old Norse kapp (“battle”), Old High German hamf (“paralysed, maimed, mutilated”). Doublet of campus and champ. The verb is from Middle English campen, from Old English campian, compian (“to fight, war against”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampōn (“to fight, do battle”), from *kamp (“field, battlefield, battle”), see above. Cognate with Dutch kampen, German kämpfen (“to struggle”), Danish kæmpe, Swedish kämpa.
An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.
Where this word comes from
Unknown. Suggested origins include the 17th century French word camper (“to put oneself in a pose”), an assumed dialectal English word *camp or *kemp (“rough, uncouth”) and a derivation from camp (n.) Believed to be from Polari, but otherwise obscure.
Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
Ostentatiously flamboyant or effeminate.
Intentionally tasteless or vulgar; self-parodying.
Where this word comes from
Unknown. Suggested origins include the 17th century French word camper (“to put oneself in a pose”), an assumed dialectal English word *camp or *kemp (“rough, uncouth”) and a derivation from camp (n.) Believed to be from Polari, but otherwise obscure.
To behave in a camp manner.
Where this word comes from
Unknown. Suggested origins include the 17th century French word camper (“to put oneself in a pose”), an assumed dialectal English word *camp or *kemp (“rough, uncouth”) and a derivation from camp (n.) Believed to be from Polari, but otherwise obscure.
The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that comprises all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
The pampas, which are the vast grassy areas situated in the rural areas beyond Argentine cities such as Buenos Aires.
Where this word comes from
From Spanish campo (“countryside”).
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