camp
IPA: kˈæmp
noun
- 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.
verb
- 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.]
adjective
- Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
- (of a man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
- Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.
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Examples of "camp" in Sentences
- He was an aide de camp.
- He catered the food for the camp.
- Camping is allowed in the seashore.
- They gave the sanction for camping.
- Don't subdivide Presbyterian camps.
- The camp is the smallest refugee camp.
- Camp Savage is the founding school of the.
- Furthermore, the longevity of the camp is notable.
- The celebrities in the Away Camp moved into the Home Camp.
- The depth of my culinary appetite in camp is very shallow.
- I think that the McCain camp is just obsessed with his age.
- Most of the Zaiani were outside of the camp at the time of the attack.
- 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.
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