camp

Signification (Anglais)

1. An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
2. An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
3. A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
4. A concentration camp; gulag.
5. A single hut or shelter.
6. The company or body of persons encamped.
7. A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
8. (obsolete) An army.
9. Campus
10. (informal) A summer camp.
11. (slang) A prison.
12. A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost
13. (obsolete) Conflict; battle.

camp

camper

cabane dans la fôret

toile à tentes

Camp de réfugiés

ingroup

inner circle

folitude

follitude

temporary residence

lie encamped

be encamped

camp down

halting place

military camp

set up camp

temporary shelter

pitch camp

military base

stopping place

take up residence

troop camp

geographical area

ham it up

hyperbolise

clamp-on

place of encampment

to set up camp

gathering or camp circle

bivouak

army camp

amusive

battle formation

camp site

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kæmp/

From Middle English kampe (“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp (“battle, contest, battlefield, open space”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“open field where military exercises are held, level plain”), from Latin campus (“open field, level plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend; crooked”). Reinforced circa 1520 by Middle French can, camp (“place where an army lodges temporarily”), from Old Northern French camp, from the same Latin (whence also French champ from Old French). Cognate with Old High German champf (“battle, struggle”) (German Kampf), Old Norse kapp (“battle”), Old High German hamf (“paralysed, maimed, mutilated”). Doublet of campus and champ. The verb is from Middle English campen, from Old English campian, compian (“to fight, war against”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampōn (“to fight, do battle”), from *kamp (“field, battlefield, battle”), see above. Cognate with Dutch kampen, German kämpfen (“to struggle”), Danish kæmpe, Swedish kämpa.