How do you use the word "camp" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "camp": We found it very hard going back to our base camp in the blizzard. We made camp near the lake.

Camp Meaning

/ˈkæmp/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

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

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

Sentence Examples

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

We made camp near the lake.

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

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

tent tasteless

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

Every summer, the scouts pitch their tents at the same lakeside ____.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We decided to ____ near the lake to enjoy the fresh air and stars.

Word Origin & History

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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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." — 2013 June 18, Esther Felden, “Hell on earth”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2015:

"The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight." — 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:

"My Campe is like to Iulius Cæſars Hoſte, That neuer fought but had the victorie:" — 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:

"‘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." — 1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 82:

"Lantana is a sweet camp. It's an old hospital that has been converted to a drug treatment center for prisoners." — 2009, Nick Chandler, Jeanette Billings, Determined to Change: The Autobiography of Nick Chandler, page 184:

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