camp

Meaning

Noun

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.

Verb

1. To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
2. To set up a camp.
3. To afford rest or lodging for.
4. To stay in an advantageous location.
5. To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
6. Short for corpse camp.
7. (obsolete) To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
8. (obsolete) To wrangle; argue.

Adj

1. Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
2. Ostentatiously effeminate.
3. Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.

Verb

To behave in a camp manner; camp it up.

Concepts

camp

encampment

bivouac

encamp

home

place

camp out

cantonment

country

barracks

campsite

tent

temporary residence

camping

camping ground

house

lie encamped

campground

halting place

camp down

be encamped

asylum

military camp

lodge

field

party

campy

summer camp

refugee camp

clique

coterie

ingroup

inner circle

pack

side

pitch camp

sleep

set up camp

grouping

temporary shelter

settlement

homeland

etc.

squat

battlefield

police station

billeting

battle formation

garrison

camp site

tents

berth

billet

domicile

enclosure

stockade

battle

troop camp

ostentatious

exaggerated

affected

theatrical

effeminate

laager

station

place of encampment

part

beliefs

heritage

geographical area

climb down

descend

go down

clamp-on

shelter

canvass

to set up camp

gathering or camp circle

take up residence

guesthouse

hotel

stopping place

encamped

amusing

amusive

comic

comical

diverting

humourous

laughable

light-hearted

lighthearted

lightsome

risible

aggrandise

aggrandize

amplify

exaggerate

ham it up

hyperbolise

hyperbolize

bloc

coalition

combination

affectedness

pretentiousness

sophistication

dwelling

accommodation

base

military base

outpost

barrack

bivouak

gay

formation

group

moorage

stand

retreat

battalion

camping site

settle

vacationers

bed

bedroll

nest

army camp

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kæmp/

Etymology

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.