Camp

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A place where tents, huts, or other temporary shelters are set up, as by soldiers, nomads, or travelers.
  • noun. A cabin or shelter or group of such buildings.
  • noun. The people using such shelters.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A place in the country that offers simple group accommodations and organized recreation or instruction, as for vacationing children.
  • noun. A place where athletes engage in intensive training, especially preseason training.
  • noun. The people attending the programs at such a place.
  • noun. A prison camp or concentration camp.
  • noun. Military service; army life.
  • noun. A group of people who think alike or share a cause; side.
  • intransitive verb. To make or set up a camp.
  • intransitive verb. To live in or as if in a camp; settle.
  • intransitive verb. To shelter or lodge in a camp; encamp.
  • noun. Deliberate affectation or exaggeration of style, especially of popular or outdated style, for ironic or humorous effect.
  • adjective. Showing or characterized by camp.
  • adjective. Given to or characterized by exaggerated, effeminate mannerisms.
  • intransitive verb. To act in a histrionic or exaggerated manner.
  • intransitive verb. To act in an exaggerated, effeminate manner.
  • intransitive verb. To exaggerate or overdramatize.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Conflict; battle.
  • noun. An English form of the game of foot-ball.
  • To surpass, excel, or outrank (others) in a contest. Compare kemp.
  • To put into or lodge in a camp, as an army; encamp.
  • To afford camping-ground for; afford rest or lodging to.
  • To bury in pits, as potatoes; pit.
  • To establish or make a camp; go into camp: sometimes with down.
  • To live in a camp, as an army: as, we camped there three days.
  • To live temporarily in a tent or tents or in rude places of shelter, as for health or pleasure: generally with out.
  • noun. A place where an army or other body of men is or has been encamped; the collection of tents or other temporary structures for the accommodation of a number of men, particularly troops in a temporary station; an encampment.
  • noun. A body of troops or other persons encamping together; an army with its camp-equipment.
  • noun. In British agri., a heap of turnips, potatoes, or other roots laid up in a trench and thickly covered with straw and earth for preservation through the winter. In some places called a pit, in others a bury.
  • noun. A mustering place for cattle.
  • noun. [capitalized] In the early history of Australian colonization, the name popularly applied to Sydney, New South Wales, and to Hobart in Tasmania, the British forces being stationed in those places.
  • noun. A camping-out expedition, as for fishing, shooting, recreation, or the like; a camp-out.
  • To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; hence, to strive with others in doing anything.
  • To wrangle; argue.
  • To play at the game of camp.
  • noun. A caterpillar.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out.
  • intransitive verb. To play the game called camp.
  • transitive verb. To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.
  • noun. The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.
  • noun. A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.
  • noun. A single hut or shelter.
  • noun. The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.
  • noun. A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie.
  • noun. An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
  • noun. a light bedstead that can be folded up onto a small space for easy transportation.
  • noun. a kind ceiling often used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling.
  • Word Usage
    "I've been in all sorts of camps -- military camps, hunting camps and camp meetings, but never dreamed of such a thing as a _balloon camp_ before!"
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    decamp  
    Equivalent
    tasteless  
    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    alter  change  dwell  inhabit  live  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Champ  amp  champ  clamp  cramp  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    army  broc  castle  codefendant  family  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    burrow  pie  
    verb-form
    camped  camping  camps