camp

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English camp (“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp (“battle, contest, battlefield, open space”), from Proto-Germanic *kampaz, *kampan (“open field where military exercises are held, level plain”), from Latin campus (“open field, level plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- (“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 source. Cognate with Old High German champf (German Kampf, “battle, struggle”), Old Norse kapp (“battle”), Old High German hamf (“paralysed, maimed, mutilated”).

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camp (plural camps)

  1. An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
  2. An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
  3. A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
  4. A group of people with the same ideals or political leanings, strongly supported.
  5. An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
  6. (rare) campus
  7. (informal) A summer camp.

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outdoor place
organized event
base
group
style
summer camp — see summer camp

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camp (comparative camper, superlative campest)

  1. Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
  2. (of a man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
  3. Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.

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theatrical
ostentatiously effeminate
tasteless
related to a camp

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camp (third-person singular simple present camps, present participle camping, simple past and past participle camped)

  1. To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
    We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.
  2. To set up a camp.
  3. (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.
    The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.
    Go and camp the flag for the win.

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to live in a tent
to set up a camp
to stay in an advantageous location

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camp m. (oblique plural cams, nominative singular cams, nominative plural camp)

  1. Alternative form of champ.

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From Latin campus.

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camp m. (plural camps)

  1. field (open area of land)
  2. camp (temporary outdoor accomodation)
  3. field of study, discipline
  4. (physics) field

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camp militaire pendant la guerre de 1914-18.

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Latin campus.

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camp m. (plural camps)

  1. camp (An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.)
    Il a mis son camp en tel endroit.
  2. camp (Semi-temporary accommodation)
    Un camp de concentration.
  3. camp (A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary)
    Les camps ennemis.
  4. camp (A group of people with the same ideals or political leanings, strongly supported.)
    Ce pays est partagé en deux camps.
  5. camp, summer camp.
    Un camp de vacances.
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très camp !

English camp.

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  • IPA: /kɑ̃mp/, /kɑ̃p/

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camp inv.

  1. camp (Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying, affected, exaggerated)
    Une folle camp ne peut jamais en faire trop.

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camp m. (usually uncountable)

  1. campness; An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
    La tactique des Sœurs dans la lutte contre le sida repose sur une stratégie politique : une utilisation du camp, une réappropriation revendiquée de l’efféminement, de la visibilité homosexuelle et de la follitude qui visent à désarmer les injonctions morales pesant sur la sexualité – sociales, religieuses, liées au sexe, au genre, aux pratiques sexuelles…
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From Latin campus.

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camp m. and n.

  1. combat

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camp n.

  1. an enclosed piece of land

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Le camp du drap d'or.

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Latin campus.

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camp m. (oblique plural camps, nominative singular camps, nominative plural camp)

  1. camp.
  2. Alternative form of champ.
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