CAMP

camp, campy

(adjective) 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”

camp, encampment, cantonment, bivouac

(noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; “wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling”

camp

(noun) temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers; “level ground is best for parking and camp areas”

camp

(noun) a penal institution (often for forced labor); “China has many camps for political prisoners”

camp, summer camp

(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”

camp, refugee camp

(noun) shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs

camp

(noun) something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality; “the living room was pure camp”

clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, camp

(noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

camp

(noun) a group of people living together in a camp; “the whole camp laughed at his mistake”

camp

(verb) give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

camp, camp down

(verb) establish or set up a camp

camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent

(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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

camp (countable and uncountable, plural camps)

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

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

A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.

A single hut or shelter.

The company or body of persons encamped.

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

(uncommon) Campus

(informal) A summer camp.

(prison slang) A prison.

(agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost

Synonyms: burrow, pie

(obsolete) Conflict; battle.

(UK, obsolete) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.

Verb

camp (third-person singular simple present camps, present participle camping, simple past and past participle camped)

To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.

To set up a camp.

(transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.

(video games) To stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning point or in order to guard an area.

(intransitive, obsolete) To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.

(intransitive, obsolete) To wrangle; argue.

Etymology 2

Noun

camp (uncountable)

An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.

Adjective

camp (comparative camper, superlative campest)

Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.

(of a, man) Ostentatiously effeminate.

Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.

Anagrams

• CAPM, CPAM

Noun

cAMP

(medicine) Initialism of cyclic AMP.

Anagrams

• CAPM, CPAM

Proper noun

Camp

A diminutive of the male given name Campbell.

A surname.

Anagrams

• CAPM, CPAM

Proper noun

CAMP

Acronym of Central Atlantic magmatic province.

Anagrams

• CAPM, CPAM

Source: Wiktionary

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Camp, n. Etym: [F. camp, It. campo, fr. L. campus plant, fleld; akin to Gr. Campaing, Champ, n.]

1. The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc. Shzk.

2. A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner. Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston. W. Irving.

3. A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.

4. The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc. The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight. Macaulay.

5. (Agric.)

Definition: A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie. [Prov. Eng.]

6. Etym: [Cf. OE. & AS. camp contest, battle. See champion.]

Definition: An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England. Halliwell. Camp bedstead, a light bedstead that can be folded up onto a small space for easy transportation.

– camp ceiling (Arch.), a kind ceiling often used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling.

– Camp chair, a light chair that can be folded up compactly for easy transportation; the seat and back are often made of strips or pieces of carpet.

– Camp fever, typhus fever.

– Camp follower, a civilian accompanying an army, as a sutler, servant, etc.

– Camp meeting, a religious gathering for open-air preaching, held in some retired spot, chiefty by Methodists. It usualy last for several days, during which those present lodge in tents, temporary houses, or cottages.

– Camp stool, the same as camp chair, except that the stool has no back.

– Flying camp (Mil.), a camp or body of troops formed for rapid motion from one place to another. Farrow.

– To pitch (a) camp, to set up the tents or huts of a camp.

– To strike camp, to take down the tents or huts of a camp.

Camp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Camped; p. pr. & vb n. Camping.]

Definition: To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers. Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together. Shak.

Camp, v. i.

1. To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out. They camped out at night, under the stars. W. Irving.

2. Etym: [See Camp, n., 6]

Definition: To play the game called camp. [Prov. Eng.] Tusser.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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