# camper
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈkæmpɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkæmpə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -æmpə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From camp (verb) +‎ -er.

#### Noun

camper (plural campers)
* A person who camps, especially in a tent etc.
    There were thousands of campers at the music festival.
** 2008 March 13, David Pogue, “Media Players, Untethered”, in The New York Times‎:They're indispensable for backpackers, campers and anyone else who plans to be away from a power outlet for a while; indeed, both the Solar and the Eco Player are ruggedly built, with rubberized nonscratchable surfaces.
** 2010, Erjan J. Slavin, The Tale of the Mirror (& The Wishing Tree Poetry), →ISBN, page 72:To be sung to in this way by the entire faery kingdom, each member of it born from the heartsong of a camper, was truly a delight that not many, I believe, have known.
* A motor vehicle with a rear compartment for living and sleeping in.
** 2003, Roberta Martin Starry, Gold Gamble, page 156:The moonshiners are now only a memory, but the sunrisers have grown into many hundreds, with trailers and campers pulling into Red Rock Canyon days early for a good parking spot.
* (video games) A person who stays in one spot during a first-person shooting game, to guard an item etc.

##### Derived terms

* camper shell
* campership
* camper van
* canoe camper
* corpse camper
* freedom camper
* glamper
* happy camper
* left lane camper
* noncamper
* right lane camper
* spawn camper
* stealth camper
* summer camper
* truck camper
* water camper
* workcamper

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From camp (adjective) +‎ -er.

#### Adjective

camper
* comparative form of camp: more camp

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [kəmˈpe]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kamˈpeɾ]

### Noun

camper m (plural campers)
* smallholder
* (heraldry) field

## Danish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English camper.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaːmpər/, [ˈkʰæːmb̥ɐ]

#### Noun

camper c (singular definite camperen, plural indefinite campere)
* camper (motor vehicle with a rear compartment for living and sleeping in) [from 1986]

##### Synonyms

* autocamper

### Etymology 2

See campere (“to camp”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kampeːr/, [kʰɑmˈpʰeːˀɐ̯]

#### Verb

camper or campér
* imperative of campere

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English camper.

### Pronunciation

* (Netherlands) IPA: /ˈkɛm.pər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: cam‧per

### Noun

camper m (plural campers, diminutive campertje n)
* a camper (recreational vehicle), a motor home

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

camper
* to camp
* to plant, install, stand firmly

#### Derived terms

* camper sur ses positions

### Further reading

* “camper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* crampe

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English camper.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkam.per/
* Rhymes: -amper
* Hyphenation: càm‧per

### Noun

camper m (invariable)
* campervan, camper
    Synonym: autocaravan

### References

* ↑ camper in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* campar

### Etymology

From kampe +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkampər/

### Noun

camper
* (rare) A participant in a ball sport.

#### References

* “camper, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-30.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English camper.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɐ̃.peʁ/ [ˈkɐ̃.peh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɐ̃.peʁ/ [ˈkɐ̃.peh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈkɐ̃.peɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈkɐ̃.peʁ/ [ˈkɐ̃.peχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɐ̃.peɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkɐ̃.pɛɾ/

### Noun

camper m or f by sense (plural campers)
* (video games, Internet slang) camper (person who stays in one spot during a FPS game)

#### Derived terms

* campar
* camperar