campfire

English

Etymology

camp +‎ fire

Noun

campfire (plural campfires)

1. A fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing.
   • 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:

     Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.

Related terms

• bonfire
• campground
• Campfire Girls
• camping
• campfire story
• campfire song

Translations

fire at a campground

• Arabic: نَار مُخَيَّم (nār muḵayyam)
• Armenian: խարույկ (hy) (xaruyk)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 營火／营火 (zh) (yínghuǒ), 营火 (zh) (yínghuǒ)

• Danish: bål (da) n
• Dutch: kampvuur (nl) n
• Esperanto: tendarfajro
• Finnish: leirituli (fi), nuotio (fi)
• French: feu de camp (fr) m
• Galician: fogueira (gl) f
• Georgian: კოცონი (ḳoconi)
• German: Lagerfeuer (de) n
• Hungarian: tábortűz (hu)
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• Icelandic: varðeldur (is) m
• Japanese: キャンプファイヤー (kyanpufaia)
• Kazakh: алау (alau)
• Korean: 모닥불 (modakbul)
• Maori: kōpae, ahi kōpae
• Norwegian: bål n, leirbål n (campfire)
• Polish: ognisko (pl) n
• Portuguese: fogueira (pt) f
• Quechua: kaña
• Russian: костёр (ru) m (kostjór)
• Spanish: fogata f, hoguera (es) f, brasero m (Argentina, Mexico), pira (es) f
• Swedish: lägereld c
• Turkish: kamp ateşi