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Webster 1913 Edition

Camp

Camp

(kămp)
,
Noun.
[F.
camp
, It.
campo
, fr. L.
campus
plant, field; akin to Gr.
κῆποσ
garden. Cf.
Campaign
,
Champ
,
Noun.
]
1.
The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.
Shak.
2.
A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.
Forming a
camp
in the neighborhood of Boston.
W. Irving.
3.
A single hut or shelter;
as, a hunter’s
camp
.
4.
The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.
The
camp
broke up with the confusion of a flight.
Macaulay.
5.
(Agric.)
A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; – called also
burrow
and
pie
.
[Prov. Eng.]
6.
[Cf. OE. & AS.
camp
contest, battle. See
champion
.]
An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
Halliwell.
Camp bedstead
,
a light bedstead that can be folded up onto a small space for easy transportation.
–
camp ceiling
(Arch.)
,
a kind ceiling often used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling.
–
Camp chair
,
a light chair that can be folded up compactly for easy transportation; the seat and back are often made of strips or pieces of carpet.
–
Camp fever
,
typhus fever.
–
Camp follower
,
a civilian accompanying an army, as a sutler, servant, etc.
–
Camp meeting
,
a religious gathering for open-air preaching, held in some retired spot, chiefly by Methodists. It usually last for several days, during which those present lodge in tents, temporary houses, or cottages.
–
Camp stool
,
the same as
camp chair
, except that the stool has no back.
–
Flying camp
(Mil.)
,
a camp or body of troops formed for rapid motion from one place to another.
Farrow.
–
To pitch (a) camp
,
to set up the tents or huts of a camp.
–
To strike camp
,
to take down the tents or huts of a camp.

Camp

(kămp)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Camped
(kămt; 215)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Camping
.]
To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.
Had our great palace the capacity
To
camp
this host, we all would sup together.
Shakespeare

Camp

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; – often with
out
.
They
camped
out at night, under the stars.
W. Irving.
2.
[See
Camp
,
Noun.
, 6]
To play the game called camp.
[Prov. Eng.]
Tusser.

Webster 1828 Edition

Camp

CAMP

, n.
1.
The ground on which an army pitch their tents, whether for a night or a longer time.
2.
The order or arrangement of tents, or disposition of an army, for rest; as, to pitch a camp. Also, the troops encamped on the same field.
3.
An army.

CAMP

,
Verb.
T.
or I. To rest or lodge, as an army, usually in tents; to pitch a camp; to fix tents; but seldom used. [See Encamp.]

Definition 2024

Camp

Camp

See also: camp, CAMP, cAMP, and câmp

English

Proper noun

Camp

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Campbell.

German

Etymology

From English camp. Compare native German Kamp.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɛmp/

Noun

Camp n ‎(genitive Camps, plural Camps)

  1. camp (accommodation in tents)

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

camp

camp

See also: Camp, CAMP, cAMP, and câmp

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kæmp/
  • Rhymes: -æmp

Noun

camp ‎(plural camps)

  1. (archaic) Conflict; battle.
  2. An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
  3. An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
  4. A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
  5. A single hut or shelter.
    a hunter's camp
  6. The company or body of persons encamped.
    • Macaulay
      The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.
  7. A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
  8. (uncommon) Campus
  9. (informal) A summer camp.
  10. (agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; called also burrow and pie.
  11. (Britain, obsolete) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Translations

Verb

camp ‎(third-person singular simple present camps, present participle camping, simple past and past participle camped)

  1. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
  2. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To wrangle; argue.
  3. To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
    We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.
  4. To set up a camp.
  5. (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
    • Shakespeare
      Had our great palace the capacity / To camp this host, we all would sup together.
  6. (video games) To stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning point or in order to guard an area.
    The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.
    Go and camp the flag for the win.
Derived terms
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Adjective

camp ‎(not comparable)

  1. Of or related to a camp.
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Etymology 2

Believed to be from Polari, otherwise obscure.[1] Suggested origins include the 17th century French word camper ‎(“to put oneself in a pose”),[2] an assumed dialectal English word camp or kemp meaning 'rough' or 'uncouth' and a derivation from camp (n.)[3]

Noun

camp ‎(uncountable)

  1. An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
Translations

Adjective

camp ‎(comparative camper, superlative campest)

  1. Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
  2. (of a man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
    • 2014, Sarah Lotz, The Three, Hachette UK (ISBN 9781444775358)
      And to be honest, in the illustration Mr Tumnus does look as camp as **** with his little scarf tied jauntily around his neck. I suppose it isn't outside the realms of possibility that he'd just been off cottaging with some centaurs in the forest. God.
    • 2007, David Rothwell, Dictionary of Homonyms, Wordsworth Editions (ISBN 9781840225426), page 88
      More recently the word has become colloquial English for either implying that someone is a homosexual ('he's very camp'), or for describing rather outre behaviour...
  3. Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.
    • 2002, Georges-Claude Guilbert, Madonna as Postmodern Myth: How One Star's Self-Construction Rewrites Sex, Gender, Hollywood and the American Dream, McFarland (ISBN 9780786480715), page 123
      In Saturday Night Live, Madonna also unsurprisingly played Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and a Joan Collins clone, all in a very camp way. As John Dean writes: “U.S. rock has a ruling camp queen with Madonna.”...
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Derived terms

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923: share · working · breath · #989: camp · prove · engaged · America

Anagrams

References

  1. ↑ listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
  2. ↑ Douglas Harper, "camp (adj.)" in: Etymonline.com - Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001ff
  3. ↑ Micheal Quinion, "Camp" in: World Wide Words, 2003

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin campus.

Noun

camp m ‎(plural camps)

  1. field (open area of land)
  2. camp (temporary outdoor accommodation)
  3. field of study, discipline
  4. (physics) field

Synonyms

Derived terms

French

camp militaire pendant la guerre de 1914-18.

Etymology 1

Probably from a Norman or Picard word equivalent to French champ (itself inherited from Old French champ and Latin), from Old Northern French camp, from Latin campus, or alternatively from Occitan camp, Old Provençal camp, possibly Italian campo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑ̃/

Noun

camp m ‎(plural camps)

  1. camp (An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.)
    Il a dressé son camp de l'autre côté de la rivière.‎
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. camp (Semi-temporary accommodation)
    Un camp de concentration.‎
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  3. camp (A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary)
    Les camps ennemis.‎
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  4. camp (A group of people with the same ideals or political leanings, strongly supported.)
    Ce pays est partagé en deux camps.‎
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  5. camp, summer camp.
    Un camp de vacances.‎
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

très camp!

Borrowing from English camp.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑ̃mp/, /kɑ̃p/

Adjective

camp m, f ‎(invariable)

  1. camp (Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying, affected, exaggerated)
    Une folle camp ne peut jamais en faire trop.

Noun

camp m ‎(uncountable)

  1. campness; An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
    La tactique des Sœurs dans la lutte contre le sida repose sur une stratégie politique : une utilisation du camp, une réappropriation revendiquée de l’efféminement, de la visibilité homosexuelle et de la follitude qui visent à désarmer les injonctions morales pesant sur la sexualité – sociales, religieuses, liées au sexe, au genre, aux pratiques sexuelles…
Synonyms
  • follitude

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Northern French camp, from Latin campus, from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- ‎(“to bend; crooked”). Compare French champ.

Noun

camp m ‎(plural camps)

  1. (Guernsey) field

Old English

Etymology

From Latin campus.

Noun

camp ?

  1. combat

Noun

camp n

  1. an enclosed piece of land

Old French

Le camp du drap d'or.

Etymology

Found in Old Northern French, Picard and Norman dialects, etc. From Latin campus.

Noun

camp m ‎(oblique plural cans, nominative singular cans, nominative plural camp)

  1. camp.
  2. Alternative form of champ

Descendants

Etymology

From Middle English camp ‎(“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp ‎(“battle, contest, battlefield, open space”), from Proto-Germanic *kampaz, *kampą ‎(“open field where military exercises are held, level plain”), from Latin campus ‎(“open field, level plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- ‎(“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”).

The verb is from Middle English campen, from Old English campian, compian ‎(“to fight, war against”), from Proto-Germanic *kampōną ‎(“to fight, do battle”), from *kampaz ‎(“field, battlefield, battle”), see above. Cognate with Dutch kampen, German kämpfen ‎(“to struggle”), Danish kæmpe, Swedish kämpa.

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