camp

IPA: kˈæmp

An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
A concentration camp; gulag.
A single hut or shelter.
The company or body of persons encamped.
A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
(obsolete) An army.
(uncommon) Campus
(informal) A summer camp.
(prison slang) A prison.
(agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost
(obsolete) Conflict; battle.
An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
(slang, Falkland Islands) 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 composes of all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
A diminutive of the male given name Campbell.
A surname.
A village on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland.
An unincorporated community in Pike County, Ohio, United States.
(medicine) Initialism of cyclic AMP.
Acronym of Central Atlantic magmatic province.

To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
To set up a camp.
(transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
(intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.
(transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
(intransitive, obsolete) To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
(intransitive, obsolete) To wrangle; argue.
To behave in a camp manner; camp it up.
(transitive, video games) Short for corpse camp. [(online gaming) To wait by a player's corpse to target them when they respawn, or when, after respawning elsewhere, they return to reclaim their equipment back from their corpse.]

Examples of "camp" in Sentences

The depth of my culinary appetite in camp is very shallow.
I think that the McCain camp is just obsessed with his age.
The McCain camp is confident an FEC investigation would find no wrongdoing.
Sounds like the McCain camp is sensitive about his age, maybe we should be worried.
The McCain camp is attempting to persuade Americans that their taxes will increase dramatically with Barack Obama as president.
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!
THE "Red Jacket" is another camp; but this, you see, has straight walls, marking it as _a white man's camp_ in form not apparently borrowed from the red men.
The comment Obama made several weeks ago about McCain's 5o years of experience was a snide comment about his age, but I think the McCain camp is overreaching here.
Once again, the Palin camp is trying to avoid responsibility – this time by saying that breaking the law is no big deal, because everybody (apparently, a million everybodies) does it.