adj
Meaning 1
Pertaining to open countryside; unforested, flat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
champaign
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/ˈʃæmpeɪn/
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/ˌʃæmˈpeɪn/
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CMU ARPABET: CH AE0 M P EY1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
Open countryside, or an area of open countryside.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Topics: geography, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 4
A battlefield.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 5
a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: town
noun
Meaning 6
extensive tract of level open land
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain
- he longed for the fields of his youth
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: plain, field
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma
Narrower terms: flat, floodplain, flood plain, llano, moor, moorland, peneplain, peneplane, snowfield, steppe, tundra, Olympia, Nullarbor Plain, Serengeti, Serengeti Plain
History
Etymology
From Old French champaigne, from Late Latin campānia.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: равнина (ravnina) — open countryside
- Bulgarian: открито поле — open countryside
- Greek: κάμπος (kámpos) — open countryside
- Greek: ύπαιθρος (ýpaithros) — open countryside
- Irish: má — open countryside
- Russian: откры́тое по́ле (otkrýtoje póle) — open countryside
- Russian: равни́на (ravnína) — open countryside
- Russian: по́ле би́твы (póle bítvy) — battlefield
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