camp
/ˈkeə̯mp/ noun A1- An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures. · Near-synonyms: campsite, campground, encampment· There's a big camp in the woods northwest of here. It's popular with hikers and bushcrafters.
- An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation. · I met my best friend last summer at camp. She lives in Albany and plays the clarinet.· He used to go to summer camp every alternate year.
- A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary. · Near-synonym: encampment· Signs of enemy recon were found near their camp last week.
- A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death. · Near-synonyms: concentration camp, labor camp, reeducation camp, gulag, stalag, prison camp· Some say they'll round us all up into camps, but if they come for us, we'll take some out with us, on our way out.
- A single hut or shelter. · a hunter’s camp
- The company or body of persons encamped.
- A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings. · Near-synonyms: faction, ingroup· She's in the camp that speaks as if all vaccines were poisons.
- Any prison or prison camp.
Plural camps
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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All in my hunter's camp I lie,
As if in firelit camp they lay,
She saw all the glories of the camp: its tents stretched forth in beauteous uniformity of lines, crowded with the young and the gay, and dazzling with scarlet; and, to complete the view, she saw herself seated beneath a tent, tenderly flirting with at least six officers at once.
Their parties abroad were less varied than before; and at home she had a mother and sister, whose constant repinings at the dulness of everything around them threw a real gloom over their domestic circle; and, though Kitty might in time regain her natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were removed, her other sister, from whose disposition greater evil might be apprehended, was likely to be hardened in all her folly and assurance, by a situation of such double danger as a watering-place and a camp.
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- camp To behave in a camp manner. A2
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- camp down To set up a camp
- camp out To sleep outdoors, often in a tent.
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