Camp
[kæmp]
Definition
(noun.) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; 'wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling'.
(noun.) temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers; 'level ground is best for parking and camp areas'.
(noun.) a penal institution (often for forced labor); 'China has many camps for political prisoners'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs.
(noun.) something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality; 'the living room was pure camp'.
(noun.) a group of people living together in a camp; 'the whole camp laughed at his mistake'.
(verb.) give an artificially banal or sexual quality to.
(verb.) establish or set up a camp.
(verb.) 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'.
(adj.) 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' .
Inputed by Davis--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.
(n.) A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.
(n.) A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.
(n.) The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.
(n.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie.
(n.) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
(v. t.) To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.
(v. i.) To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out.
(n.) To play the game called camp.
Checker: Shari
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Encampment.
v. n. Encamp, pitch one's tent, pitch a camp.
Typed by Jeanette
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Encamp, bivouac
Checker: Wendy
Definition
n. (obs.) conflict: an old form of the game of football.—v.i. to fight struggle.—v.i. Cam′ple to wrangle.
n. the ground on which an army pitch their tents: the tents of an army quarters generally a permanent military station as at Aldershot: any fortified site in which a force once defended itself as a Roman or British camp: any temporary quarters for travellers &c.—v.i. to encamp or pitch tents.—ns. Camp′-foll′ower any one who follows in the train of an army but takes no part in battle; Camp′meet′ing a religious gathering held in the open air or in a temporary encampment in the fields; Camp′-shed′ding -sheet′ing -shot an erection of piles &c. along the bank of a river or an embankment for strengthening; Camp′-stool or -bed′stead a portable folding-stool a trestle-bed.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of camping in the open air, you may expect a change in your affairs, also prepare to make a long and wearisome journey. To see a camping settlement, many of your companions will remove to new estates and your own prospects will appear gloomy. For a young woman to dream that she is in a camp, denotes that her lover will have trouble in getting her to name a day for their wedding, and that he will prove a kind husband. If in a military camp she will marry the first time she has a chance. A married woman after dreaming of being in a soldier's camp is in danger of having her husband's name sullied, and divorce courts may be her destination.
Editor: Stu
Examples
- If you don't believe it go down there to the camp. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There, within easy reach of the rubber trees, they set up their camp and the actual work of harvesting the rubber crop begins. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And then swiftly he dispatched his aides-de-camp to command the horse to fall on the routed enemy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The 4th infantry went into camp at Salubrity in the month of May, 1844, with instructions, as I have said, to await further orders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Neither of them had forgotten Camp Laurence, or the fun we had there. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- You go as General Tufto's aide-de-camp. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It would then be carried on the shoulders of the men to their camps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The prisoners were allowed to occupy their old camps behind the intrenchments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I therefore asked that all troops in camps of instruction in the North-west be sent to him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At last I directed my staff officers to set fire to the camps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There is the possibility of returning to the camps and leaving from there at dark, Pilar said, putting the glass to her lips and then lowering it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This divided the world of Italy into two camps, the one those who believed in Aristotle and the old learning, the other those who followed Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- We are camped in this place, now, just within the city walls of Tiberias. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We camped that night at the foot of the hills we had been approaching for two days and which marked the southern boundary of this particular sea. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- We camped at Jenin before night, and got up and started again at one o'clock in the morning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the van of the gipsies who camped on the moor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- We are camped near Temnin-el-Foka--a name which the boys have simplified a good deal, for the sake of convenience in spelling. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I had camped out many and many a time before, and knew just what was coming. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She said that the city in which we were camping was supposed to have been a center of commerce and culture known as Korad. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I simply said, If you call this camping out, all right--but it isn't the style I am used to; my little baggage that I brought along is at a discount. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At Solutré in France there are traces of a great camping and feasting-place. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If the camping site is abandoned at the close of the vacation, the pump can be removed and kept over winter for use the following summer in another place. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This fashion of camping out bewilders me. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They call this camping out. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Redwood does burn, but very slowly, and those who are familiar with California redwood know that it is the despair of the camper to endeavor to build a fire with it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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