adj
Meaning 1
Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
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adj
Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
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adj
Ostentatiously flamboyant or effeminate.
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adj
Intentionally tasteless or vulgar; self-parodying.
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name
A diminutive of the male given name Campbell.
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name
A surname.
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name
A placename
A village on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland.
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name
A placename
An unincorporated community in Pike County, Ohio, United States.
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name
A placename
Ellipsis of Camp County
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name
Acronym of Central Atlantic magmatic province.
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noun
An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: campsite, campground, encampment
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noun
An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
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noun
A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: encampment
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noun
A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: concentration camp, labor camp, reeducation camp, gulag, stalag, prison camp
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noun
A single hut or shelter.
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noun
The company or body of persons encamped.
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noun
A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: faction, ingroup
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noun
An army.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
A site where kangaroos and other macropods rest during the day.
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Usage: Australia, countable, uncountable
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noun
Clipping of campus
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noun
Any prison or prison camp.
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noun
Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”).
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Usage: alt-of, countable, misconstruction, uncountable
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
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noun
Anywhere that a colonist stayed when away from their permanent residence; such places collectively.
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noun
Conflict; battle.
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noun
An online game, in some cases roleplay, in which people compete against each other, usually in a structure similar to that of a competition show.
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noun
An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.
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Usage: uncountable
Synonyms: campness, campiness
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noun
The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
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Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
Qualifier: Falkland Islands
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noun
An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that comprises all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
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noun
The pampas, which are the vast grassy areas situated in the rural areas beyond Argentine cities such as Buenos Aires.
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noun
Initialism of cyclic AMP.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
Abbreviation of continuous airworthiness maintenance program
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Synonyms: continuous airworthiness maintenance program
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verb
To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
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verb
To set up a camp.
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verb
To afford rest or lodging for.
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verb
To stay in an advantageous location.
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Usage: intransitive
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports, video-games
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verb
To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: video-games
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verb
Of stock animals, to assemble or rest temporarily at a particular place.
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verb
Ellipsis of corpse camp.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, transitive
Topics: video-games
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verb
To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
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Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
To wrangle; argue.
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Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
To behave in a camp manner.
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Synonyms: camp it up
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adjective satellite
providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
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Synonyms: campy
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noun
temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: encampment, cantonment, bivouac
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Broader terms: military quarters
Narrower terms: boot camp, hutment, laager, lager
noun
temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
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Broader terms: housing, lodging, living accommodations
Narrower terms: tennis camp, trailer camp, trailer park
noun
a penal institution (often for forced labor)
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Broader terms: penal institution, penal facility
Narrower terms: concentration camp, stockade, labor camp, labour camp, prison camp, internment camp, prisoner of war camp, POW camp, work camp, prison farm
noun
a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
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Synonyms: summer camp
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Broader terms: site, land site
Narrower terms: day camp
noun
shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
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Synonyms: refugee camp
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Broader terms: shelter
noun
something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
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Broader terms: triteness, staleness
noun
an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
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Synonyms: clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack
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Broader terms: set, circle, band, lot
Narrower terms: Bloomsbury Group, bohemia, kitchen cabinet, brain trust, loop, cabal, faction, junto, camarilla, military junta, junta, mafia, maffia, sect, galere, rogue's gallery, hard core
noun
a group of people living together in a camp
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Broader terms: gathering, assemblage
Narrower terms: hobo camp, jungle
verb
give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
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Broader terms: change, alter, modify
verb
establish or set up a camp
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Synonyms: camp down
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Broader terms: pitch, set up
verb
live in or as if in a tent
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Synonyms: encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent
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Broader terms: populate, dwell, live, inhabit
History
Unknown. Suggested origins include the 17th century French word camper (“to put oneself in a pose”), an assumed dialectal English word *camp or *kemp (“rough, uncouth”) and a derivation from camp (n.) Believed to be from Polari, otherwise obscure.
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.
From Spanish campo (“countryside”).
Across languages
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