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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