Meaning of camp | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of cyclic AMP.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.
   uncountable
3. An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures
4. The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
   countable, slang, uncountable
5. Acronym of Central Atlantic magmatic province.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
6. Abbreviation of continuous airworthiness maintenance program
   abbreviation, alt-of
7. An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
   countable, uncountable
8. A diminutive of the male given name Campbell.
   countable, uncountable
9. An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation
10. 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.
    countable, uncountable
11. A surname.
    countable, uncountable
12. An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
    countable, uncountable
13. A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary
14. The pampas, which are the vast grassy areas situated in the rural areas beyond Argentine cities such as Buenos Aires.
    countable, slang, uncountable
15. A placename
    countable, uncountable
16. A village on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland.
    countable, uncountable
17. A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
    countable, uncountable
18. A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.
    countable, uncountable
19. A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death
20. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Ohio, United States.
    countable, uncountable
21. A single hut or shelter.
    countable, uncountable
22. A single hut or shelter
23. Ellipsis of Camp County
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
24. The company or body of persons encamped.
    countable, uncountable
25. A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
    countable, uncountable
26. An army.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
27. Clipping of campus
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncommon, uncountable
28. Any prison or prison camp.
    countable, slang, uncountable
29. Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”).
    alt-of, countable, misconstruction, uncountable
30. Anywhere that a colonist stayed when away from their permanent residence; such places collectively.
    British, India, countable, uncountable
31. Conflict; battle.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
32. 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.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: campsite, campground, encampment”

“There's a big camp in the woods northwest of here. It's popular with hikers and bushcrafters.”

“I met my best friend last summer at camp. She lives in Albany and plays the clarinet.”

“He used to go to summer camp every alternate year.”

“I met my girlfriend last summer at camp. You wouldn't know her — she lives in Canada.”

“Near-synonym: encampment”

“Signs of enemy recon were found near their camp last week.”

“Near-synonyms: concentration camp, labor camp, reeducation camp, gulag, stalag, prison camp”

“Some say they'll round us all up into camps, but if they come for us, we'll take some out with us, on our way out.”

“Mr. Ahn Myong-Chol was a prison guard at Camp 22 in Hoeryong and a driver at the camps. He was there between 1990 and 1994. He is the one who reported that prisoners had been used for human experimentation inside the camps.”

“a hunter’s camp”

“The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.”

“Near-synonyms: faction, ingroup”

“She's in the camp that speaks as if all vaccines were poisons.”

“My Campe is like to Iulius Cæſars Hoſte, That neuer fought but had the victorie:”

“Lantana is a sweet camp. It's an old hospital that has been converted to a drug treatment center for prisoners.”

“Then the Rains came, when no one could go into camp, and the Narkarra Road was washed away by the Kasun River, and in the cup-like pastures of Kashima the cattle waded knee-deep.”

“Near-synonyms: campness, campiness”

“We walk a fine line, just this side of camp. Careful calculations are made. We sense that while it might be wonderful for Krystle and Alexis to have a catfight in a koi pond, it would be inappropriate for Joan to smack Linda with a koi.”

“Why would any Hollywood studio encourage a film's transformation into camp, in effect joining in the mockery of its own product? MGM declined to comment.”

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