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Definition of 'Camp'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) camp
a place where an army or other group of persons is lodged in tents or other temporary shelters.

2.  camp
such tents or shelters collectively.

3.  camp
the persons so sheltered.

4.  camp
any temporary structure, as a tent or cabin, used on an outing or vacation.

5.  camp
a group of troops, workers, etc., camping and moving together.

6.  camp
army life.

7.  camp
a group of people favoring the same ideals, doctrines, etc.

8.  camp
the position held by such a group.

9.  camp
a place equipped with facilities for recreation, sports, and sometimes academic instruction, usu. for children during the summer. Compare day camp, summer camp.

10. (v.i.) camp
to establish or pitch a camp.

11.  camp
to live temporarily in or as if in a camp:
They camped out by the stream.

12.  camp
to reside or lodge somewhere indoors temporarily or irregularly.

13.  camp
to become ensconced.

14. (v.t.) camp
to put or station (troops) in a camp; shelter.

15. (n.) camp
something that provides amusement by virtue of its being contrived, overdone, or tasteless.

16.  camp
a person who adopts a teasing, theatrical manner.

17. (v.i.) camp
Also, camp it up. to speak or behave in a coquettishly playful or extravagantly theatrical manner.

18. (adj.) camp
campy.

19. (n.) Camp
Walter Chauncey, 1859–1925, U.S. football coach and author.

Definition of 'Camp'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) camp, encampment, cantonment, bivouac
temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
"wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"

2. (noun) camp
a group of people living together in a camp
"the whole camp laughed at his mistake"

3. (noun) camp
temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
"level ground is best for parking and camp areas"

4. (noun) clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, camp
an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

5. (noun) camp
a penal institution (often for forced labor)
"China has many camps for political prisoners"

6. (noun) camp
something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
"the living room was pure camp"

7. (noun) camp, refugee camp
shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs

8. (adj) camp, summer camp
a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
"city kids get to see the country at a summer camp"

9. (verb) camp, campy
providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
"they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"

10. (verb) camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent
live in or as if in a tent
"Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"

11. (verb) camp, camp down
establish or set up a camp

12. (verb) camp
give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

Definition of 'Camp'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) camp
a place where young people go to do activities during the vacation
She's going to camp this summer.; a sports/music camp

2.  camp
a government operated place where people live temporarily because of war, disaster, etc.
a refugee/prison camp

3.  camp
a group of people who support a particular idea or person
people in the Clinton camp

4.  camp
set up camp/make camp
to put up tents in order to stay overnight
They set up camp in a clearing.

5. (verb) camp
to live in a tent for a period
They're camping in the mountains.

Definition of 'Camp'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Camp
the ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc

2. (noun) Camp
a collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner

3. (noun) Camp
a single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp

4. (noun) Camp
the company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc

5. (noun) Camp
a mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie

6. (noun) Camp
an ancient game of football, played in some parts of England

7. (noun) Camp
to play the game called camp

8. (verb) Camp
to afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers

9. (verb) Camp
to pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out

Translation of 'Camp'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a piece of ground with tents pitched on it.
Afrikaans: kamp	Arabic: مُخَيَّم، مَضْرِبُ خِيام	Bulgarian: бивак
Brazilian: acampamento	Czech: tábořiště	German: das Lager
Danish: (telt-)lejr	Greek: κατασκήνωση	Spanish: campamento
Estonian: laagriplats	Farsi: اردوگاه صحرایی	Finnish: leiri
French: camp(ement)	Hebrew: מָחֲנֶה	Hindi: पड़ाव
Croatian: logor, tabor	Hungarian: tábor	Indonesian: perkemahan
Icelandic: (tjald)búðir	Italian: accampamento, campeggio	Japanese: 野営地
Korean: 야영지	Lithuanian: stovyklavietė	Latvian: nometne
Malay: kem	Dutch: kamp	Norwegian: (telt)leir
Polish: obóz	Persian: اردوگاه صحرایی	Pashto: camp [n]كمپ (كامپ)، هغه ځ
Portuguese: acampamento	Romanian: camping	Russian: лагерь
Slovak: táborisko	Slovenian: tabor	Serbian: kamp
Swedish: läger[plats]	Thai: พื้นที่ตั้งเต็นท์หรือกระโ	Turkish: kamp
Taiwanese: 營帳	Ukrainian: табір, кемпінг	Urdu: قطعئہ زمین جہاں پر خیمے ل
Vietnamese: chỗ cắm trại	Chinese: 营地
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