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
encamp (third-person singular simple present encamps, present participle encamping, simple past and past participle encamped)
(intransitive) To establish a camp or temporary shelter.
(transitive) To form into a camp.
Source: Wiktionary
En*camp", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Encamped; p. pr. & vb. n. Encamping.]
Definition: To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling. The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 1 Chron. xi. 15.
En*camp", v. t.
Definition: To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters. Bid him encamp his soldiers. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
