camp
Meanings
- An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
- An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
- A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
- A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.
- A single hut or shelter.
- The company or body of persons encamped.
- A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
- An army.
- A site where kangaroos and other macropods rest during the day.
- Clipping of campus
- Any prison or prison camp.
- Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”).
- To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
- To set up a camp.
- To afford rest or lodging for.
- To stay in an advantageous location.
- To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
- Of stock animals, to assemble or rest temporarily at a particular place.
- Ellipsis of corpse camp.
- To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
- To wrangle; argue.
- An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.
- Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
- Ostentatiously flamboyant or effeminate.
- Intentionally tasteless or vulgar; self-parodying.
- To behave in a camp manner.
- 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 comprises all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
- The pampas, which are the vast grassy areas situated in the rural areas beyond Argentine cities such as Buenos Aires.
- Initialism of cyclic AMP.
- A diminutive of the male given name Campbell.
- A surname.
- A placename
- A village on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland.
- An unincorporated community in Pike County, Ohio, United States.
- Ellipsis of Camp County
- Acronym of Central Atlantic magmatic province.
- Abbreviation of continuous airworthiness maintenance program
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Middle English kampe (“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp (“battle, contest, battlefield, open space”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“open field where military exercises are held, level plain”), from Latin campus (“open field, level plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend; crooked”). Reinforced circa 1520 by Middle French can, camp (“place where an army lodges temporarily”), from Old Northern French camp, from the same Latin (whence also French champ from Old French). Cognate with Old High German champf (“battle, struggle”) (German Kampf), Old Norse kapp (“battle”), Old High German hamf (“paralysed, maimed, mutilated”). Doublet of campus and champ. The verb is from Middle English campen, from Old English campian, compian (“to fight, war against”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampōn (“to fight, do battle”), from *kamp (“field, battlefield, battle”), see above. Cognate with Dutch kampen, German kämpfen (“to struggle”), Danish kæmpe, Swedish kämpa.