camp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæmp/
note: General American, Canada, /æ/ raising
ipa: [kʰɛəmp]
note: General American, Canada, /æ/ raising
other: [kʰeəmp]
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: camps
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: campsite, campground, encampment
text: There's a big camp in the woods northwest of here. It's popular with hikers and bushcrafters.
glosses: An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
examples: text: I met my best friend last summer at camp. She lives in Albany and plays the clarinet.
text: He used to go to summer camp every alternate year.
text: I met my girlfriend last summer at camp. You wouldn't know her — she lives in Canada.
glosses: An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
examples: text: Near-synonym: encampment
text: Signs of enemy recon were found near their camp last week.
glosses: A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: concentration camp, labor camp, reeducation camp, gulag, stalag, prison camp
text: 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.
text: 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.
ref: 2013 June 18, Esther Felden, “Hell on earth”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2015:
glosses: A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.
examples: text: a hunter’s camp
glosses: A single hut or shelter.
examples: text: The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter IX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: The company or body of persons encamped.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: faction, ingroup
text: She's in the camp that speaks as if all vaccines were poisons.
coordinate_terms: cult#Noun
glosses: A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
examples: text: My Campe is like to Iulius Cæſars Hoſte,
That neuer fought but had the victorie:
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
glosses: An army.
glosses: Clipping of campus
examples: text: Lantana is a sweet camp. It's an old hospital that has been converted to a drug treatment center for prisoners.
ref: 2009, Nick Chandler, Jeanette Billings, Determined to Change: The Autobiography of Nick Chandler, page 184:
glosses: Any prison or prison camp.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”).
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 62:
glosses: Anywhere that a colonist stayed when away from their permanent residence; such places collectively.
glosses: Conflict; battle.
glosses: 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.
Derived terms: autocamp
auto camp
band camp
BarCamp
base camp
boot camp
Bovington Camp
break camp
Bulford Camp
bushcamp
Camp 1
Camp 3
Camp 7
Camp 8
Camp Aguinaldo
camp-ball
camp bed
Camp Blessing
camp collar
campcraft
Camp David
Camp Douglas
Camp Downes
camper
campery
campestral
camp fever
campfire
camp fire
camp follower
campful
campground
Camp Hill
camping stove
campism
camplike
campmaster
campmate
camp mother
Camp One
camporee
campout
camp oven
Camp Pendleton North
camp robber
camp shirt
camp site
campsite
campstead
campsteading
campstool
camp stool
campstove
camp stove
camptastic
campward
campwards
camp wood
cigarette camp
concentration camp
death camp
dinner camp
encamp
encampment
extermination camp
fat camp
fire camp
fish camp
flying camp
freedom-camp
freedom camp
glamp
handicamp
holiday camp
intercamp
internment camp
labor camp
labour camp
logging camp
man camp
minicamp
mining camp
motorcamp
North Camp
object camp
orientation camp
peace camp
pitch camp
portable stove
POW camp
prison camp
prisoner-of-war camp
rape camp
reeducation camp
re-education camp
refugee camp
Sanitary Camp
Sciots Camp
set up camp
She-She-She Camp
silence camp
slave camp
spawn camping
spike camp
squatter camp
strike camp
subcamp
summer camp
terrorist camp
third camp
timber camp
town camp
witchcamp
workcamp
work-camp
work camp
Related terms: campus
champerty