Word: camp Part of Speech: noun 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. Pronunciation: /ˈkæmp/, [ˈkʰæmp], /ˈkeə̯mp/, [ˈkʰeə̯mp], /ˈkɛə̯mp/ 1. An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: campsite, campground, encampment Example: There's a big camp in the woods northwest of here. It's popular with hikers and bushcrafters. 2. An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I met my best friend last summer at camp. She lives in Albany and plays the clarinet. Example: He used to go to summer camp every alternate year. 3. A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: encampment Example: Signs of enemy recon were found near their camp last week. 4. A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: concentration camp, labor camp, reeducation camp, gulag, stalag, prison camp Example: 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. 5. A single hut or shelter. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a hunter’s camp 6. The company or body of persons encamped. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight. 7. A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: faction, ingroup Example: She's in the camp that speaks as if all vaccines were poisons. 8. An army. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: My Campe is like to Iulius Cæſars Hoſte, That neuer fought but had the victorie: 9. A site where kangaroos and other macropods rest during the day. Labels: Australia, countable, uncountable Example: ‘We must have sat down on a kangaroo camp when we boiled the billy at midday,’ I remarked irritably. Laurie laughed while I burned three kangaroo ticks from my legs. 10. Clipping of campus Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncommon, uncountable 11. Any prison or prison camp. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Lantana is a sweet camp. It's an old hospital that has been converted to a drug treatment center for prisoners. 12. Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”). Labels: alt-of, countable, misconstruction, uncountable 13. Anywhere that a colonist stayed when away from their permanent residence; such places collectively. Labels: British, India, countable, uncountable Example: 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. 14. Conflict; battle. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 15. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable