camp
An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structuresAn outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
» This is a good place to camp.
Hier ist ein guter Zeltplatz.
Це добре місце для кемпінгу.
Meaning
18 senses(countable, uncountable)An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
Near-synonyms: campsite, campground, encampment
There's a big camp in the woods northwest of here. It's popular with hikers and bushcrafters.
Lager
ла́герьlágerʹ, та́борtábor, станstan
та́бірtábir
(countable, uncountable)An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
I met my best friend last summer at camp. She lives in Albany and plays the clarinet.
He used to go to summer camp every alternate year.
ла́герьlágerʹ, кэмпkɛmp
та́бірtábir
(countable, uncountable)A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
Near-synonym: encampment
Signs of enemy recon were found near their camp last week.
Feldlager, Lager
ла́герьlágerʹ, стоя́нкаstojánka, ба́заbáza
та́бірtábir, та́бірtábir
(countable, uncountable)A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.
Near-synonyms: concentration camp, labor camp, reeducation camp, gulag, stalag, prison camp
Some say they'll round us all up into camps, but if they come for us, we'll take some out with us, on our way out.
(countable, uncountable)A single hut or shelter.
a hunter’s camp
(collective, countable, uncountable)The company or body of persons encamped.
(collective, countable, uncountable)A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
Near-synonyms: faction, ingroup
She's in the camp that speaks as if all vaccines were poisons.
a group of people living together in a camp
(Australia, countable, uncountable)A site where kangaroos and other macropods rest during the day.
a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
(countable, slang, uncountable)Any prison or prison camp.
(British, India, countable, uncountable)Anywhere that a colonist stayed when away from their permanent residence; such places collectively.
(countable, uncountable)An online game, in some cases roleplay, in which people compete against each other, usually in a structure similar to that of a competition show.
(collective, countable, uncountable)A colony or other group of bats.
Examples
1603 sentencesThis is a good place to camp.
Це добре місце для кемпінгу.
deHier ist ein guter Zeltplatz.
The food at this camp is terrible.
Їжа у цьому таборі жахлива.
This looks like a good spot to set up camp.
Це схоже на добре місце для табору.
deDas hier sieht nach einem schönen Platz für ein Lager aus.
We met at summer camp.
Ми зустрілися в літньому таборі.
ruМы встретились в летнем лагере.
deWir haben uns im Sommerlager kennengelernt.
Let's go camping this coming weekend.
Давайте підемо в похід на найближчих вихідних.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English kampe (“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp (“battle, conFrom 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.
Unknown. Suggested origins include the 17th century French word camper (“to put oneself in a pose”), an assumed dialectal English word *camp or *kemp (“rough, uncouth”) and a derivation from camp (n.) Believed to be from Polari, but otherwise obscure.
From Spanish campo (“countryside”).
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Forms
plural: campsSynonyms
21 synonyms- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers:encampmentcantonmentbivouac
- a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months:summer camp
- shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs:refugee camp
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose:cliquecoterieingroupinner circlepack
Word family
93 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- go camping
- go camping with
- to go camping
- gone gone camping
- camping next weekend
- go camping next
- camping this weekend
- go camping together
- camping trip
- camping by himself
- gone camping
- camping next