campania

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English

Etymology

See campaign.

Noun

campania (plural campanias)

  1. (obsolete) open country
    • Sir W. Temple
      The contrary of all this happens in countries thin inhabited, and especially in vast campania's, such as are extended through Asia and Afric []

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for campania”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)