English Explanatory Dictionary

campaign

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
  2. A player or team's efforts during a sporting season.
  3. A series of play sessions using the same player characters, forming a continuous narrative.
  4. The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
  5. An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
  6. An excursion into the countryside.
verb
  1. To take part in a campaign.
  2. Consistently ride in races for a racing season.

Pronunciation

/kæmˈpeɪn/ /kəmˈpeɪn/ en-us-campaign.ogg

Word forms

campaign campaigns campaigning campaigned

Etymology

From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campania, campagna, and champagne.

Synonyms

boom crusade stump

Derived words

advertising campaign anticampaign campaign button campaign group campaign hat campaignist campaignlike campaign plan campaignspeak campaign trail campaign wig countercampaign cybercampaign e-campaign election campaign fear campaign front porch campaign midcampaign military campaign multicampaign noncampaign plan of campaign political campaign postcampaign pre-campaign precampaign rumor campaign rumour campaign scare campaign smear campaign whisper campaign whispering campaign campaigner outcampaign recampaign
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