camp

1. 1

   An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.countableuncountable

   • Near-synonyms: campsite, campground, encampment
   • There's a big camp in the woods northwest of here. It's popular with hikers and bushcrafters.
2. 2

   An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.countableuncountable

   • I met my best friend last summer at camp. She lives in Albany and plays the clarinet.
   • He used to go to summer camp every alternate year.
3. 3

   A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.countableuncountable

   • Near-synonym: encampment
   • Signs of enemy recon were found near their camp last week.
4. 4

   A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.countableuncountable

   • Near-synonyms: concentration camp, labor camp, reeducation camp, gulag, stalag, prison camp
   • Some say they'll round us all up into camps, but if they come for us, we'll take some out with us, on our way out.
5. 5

   A single hut or shelter.countableuncountable

   • a hunter’s camp
6. 6

   The company or body of persons encamped.collectivecountableuncountable

   • The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.
7. 7

   A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.collectivecountableuncountable

   • Near-synonyms: faction, ingroup
   • She's in the camp that speaks as if all vaccines were poisons.
8. 8

   An army.countableobsoleteuncountable

   • My Campe is like to Iulius Cæſars Hoſte, That neuer fought but had the victorie:
9. 9

   A site where kangaroos and other macropods rest during the day.Australiacountableuncountable

   • ‘We must have sat down on a kangaroo camp when we boiled the billy at midday,’ I remarked irritably. Laurie laughed while I burned three kangaroo ticks from my legs.
10. 10

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1. 1

   To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.

   • We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.
2. 2

   To set up a camp.

3. 3

   To afford rest or lodging for.transitive

   • Had our great palace the capacity / To camp this host, we all would sup together.
4. 4

   To stay in an advantageous location.intransitive

   • Some players like to camp next to a power-up's spawning point.
5. 5

   To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.transitive

   • The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.
   • Go and camp the flag for the win.
6. 6

   Of stock animals, to assemble or rest temporarily at a particular place.Australiaintransitive

   • The bullocks camped in front on the big fire, with the black line of trees facing them.
7. 7

   Ellipsis of corpse camp.abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

8. 8

   To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.intransitiveobsolete

   • 1562, Leigh, The Accedens of Armory ː Aristotle affirmeth that Rauens will gather together on sides, and campe and fight for victorie.
9. 9

   To wrangle; argue.intransitiveobsolete

1. 1

   An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.uncountable

   • Near-synonyms: campness, campiness

1. 1

   Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.

2. 2

   Ostentatiously flamboyant or effeminate.

   • More recently the word has become colloquial English for either implying that someone is a homosexual (‘he's very camp’), or for describing rather outre behaviour[…]
3. 3

   Intentionally tasteless or vulgar; self-parodying.

   • In Saturday Night Live, Madonna also unsurprisingly played Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and a Joan Collins clone, all in a very camp way. As John Dean writes: “U.S. rock has a ruling camp queen with Madonna.”

syn. campy · campish

ant. uncamp · uncampy

1. 1

   To behave in a camp manner.

   • Oster and his two co-stars, Jamie MacKenzie and Bill Martel, boogie and bop, sway and swish, camp and croon through tightly worked production numbers addressing a range of serious (and not so serious) issues that middle class, urban gay men

1. 1

   The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.countableslanguncountable

2. 2

   An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that comprises all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.countableslanguncountable

3. 3

   The pampas, which are the vast grassy areas situated in the rural areas beyond Argentine cities such as Buenos Aires.countableslanguncountable