Dictionary
camp
Meaning
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- 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 concentration camp; gulag.
- A single hut or shelter.
- The company or body of persons encamped.
- A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
- (obsolete) An army.
- Campus
- (informal) A summer camp.
- (slang) A prison.
- A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost
- (obsolete) Conflict; battle.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kæmp/
Cognate with French
champ
Cognate with German
Kampf
Cognate with Dutch
kampen
Cognate with German
kämpfen
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