camp in English dictionary

  • camp

    Meanings and definitions of "camp"

    • An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
    • An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
    • A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
    • A group of people with the same ideals or political leanings, strongly supported.
    • An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
    • (uncommon) campus
    • (informal) A summer camp.
    • Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
    • (of a man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
    • Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.
    • To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
    • To set up a camp.
    • (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.
    • To behave in a camp manner.
    • adjective
      Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
    • adjective
      (of a man)
      Ostentatiously effeminate.
    • adjective
      Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.
    • adjective
      Of or related to a camp.
    • noun
      (archaic)
      Conflict; battle.
    • noun
      An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
    • noun
      An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
    • noun
      A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
    • noun
      A single hut or shelter.
    • noun
      The company or body of persons encamped.
    • noun
      A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
    • noun
      (uncommon)
      Campus
    • noun
      (informal)
      A summer camp.
    • noun
      (agriculture)
      A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; called also burrow and pie.
    • noun
      (Britain, obsolete)
      An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
    • noun
      An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
    • verb
      (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal)
      To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
    • verb
      (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal)
      To wrangle; argue.
    • verb
      To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
    • verb
      To set up a camp.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To afford rest or lodging for.
    • verb
      (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.
    • organized event
    • A place where tents, cabins, or other temporary structures are erected for the use of military troops, for training soldiers, etc.
    • camp (group of same ideological beliefs)
    • To live in a tent or similar temporary accomodation.
    • Tents, cabins, etc., used as temporary lodgings by a group of travellers, holiday-makers, Scouts, Gypsies, etc.
    • outdoor place
    • base
    • group
    • style
    • related to a camp
    • to live in a tent
    • adjective
      providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"
    • noun
      an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
    • noun
      a group of people living together in a camp; "the whole camp laughed at his mistake"
    • noun
      a penal institution (often for forced labor); "China has many camps for political prisoners"
    • noun
      a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months; "city kids get to see the country at a summer camp"
    • noun
      shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
    • noun
      something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality; "the living room was pure camp"
    • noun
      temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
    • noun
      temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers; "level ground is best for parking and camp areas"
    • verb
      establish or set up a camp
    • verb
      give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
    • verb
      live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"

    Synonyms of "camp" in English dictionary

    camp down, prison house, site are the top synonyms of "camp" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of camp

    • camp ( plural  camps)
    • camp ( comparative camper, superlative campest)
    • camp ( third-person singular simple present camps, present participle camping, simple past and past participle camped)
    • camp (comparative camper, superlative campest)
    • camp (not comparable)
    • camp (plural camps)
    • camp (uncountable)
    • camp (third-person singular simple present camps, present participle camping, simple past and past participle camped)
  • Camp

    Meanings and definitions of "camp"

    • A diminutive of the male given name Campbell.
    • proper
      A diminutive of the male given name Campbell.
  • cAMP

    Meanings and definitions of "camp"

    • abbreviation
      (medicine)
      Initialism of [i]cyclic AMP[/i].
  • CAMP

    Meanings and definitions of "camp"

    • abbreviation
      Central Atlantic magmatic province

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