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[ US /ˈkæmp/ ]
[ US /ˈkæmp/ ]
NOUN
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temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling - an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
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a penal institution (often for forced labor)
China has many camps for political prisoners -
a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
city kids get to see the country at a summer camp - shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
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temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
level ground is best for parking and camp areas -
something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
the living room was pure camp -
a group of people living together in a camp
the whole camp laughed at his mistake
VERB
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live in or as if in a tent
Can we go camping again this summer?
The houseguests had to camp in the living room
The circus tented near the town - give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
- establish or set up a camp
ADJECTIVE
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providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect
campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's
How To Use camp In A Sentence
- In 1949, "pseudo folksongs" were banned by Dalstroi, the Gulag mining camps in Kolyma. Not so secret: deal at the heart of UK-US intelligence
- If you lip balm contains phenol, camphor, menthol, peppermint oil or eucalyptus, it's most likely making your lips more chapped than not.
- On his first day there he approached a couple of elegant young toffs strolling around the campus. Times, Sunday Times
- A lot was said during that divisive leadership campaign which cannot be unsaid.
- Hamed will go on a publicity tour around the States next week before entering training camp on February 16.
- But after three consecutive nights of camping out I'd had enough, especially since the last had been spent near Verdun in Le Foret du Mort Homme, which translates as Dead Man's Forest.
- Helen Hunt Jackson was a known activist who campaigned for the rights of the Native American Indians.
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- Adding to my trepidation is this primary poll from Survey USA, which confirms Roulstone's campaign doesn't yet have the profile it needs. Sound Politics: Roulstone Update
- The ensuing grassroots campaign failed to save "embrangle" (to confuse or entangle) and "caliginosity" (dimness, darkness). Jezebel