camp

CEFRA2

/ˈkæmp/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A place where people live temporarily in tents or simple buildings.

  2. 02

    verb

    To stay outdoors in a tent.

Examples

  • Around fifty people die of hunger every day in the camp.

  • We found it very hard going back to our base camp in the blizzard.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [ˈkʰeə̯mp]
  • /ˈkeə̯mp/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.

  2. An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.

  3. An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.

More examples

In context

  • We made camp near the lake.

  • I met my best friend last summer at camp. She lives in Albany and plays the clarinet.

  • There's a big camp in the woods northwest of here. It's popular with hikers and bushcrafters.

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Origin

noun

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 ver...