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Camp

noun

1.

Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers. Synonyms: bivouac, cantonment, encampment.

2.

A group of people living together in a camp.

3.

Temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers.

4.

An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose. Synonyms: clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack.

5.

A penal institution (often for forced labor).

6.

Something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality.

7.

Shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs. Synonym: refugee camp.

8.

A site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months. Synonym: summer camp.

verb

(past & past part. camped; pres. part. camping)

1.

Live in or as if in a tent. Synonyms: bivouac, camp out, encamp, tent. "The circus tented near the town" , "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"

2.

Establish or set up a camp. Synonym: camp down.

3.

Give an artificially banal or sexual quality to.

adjective

1.

Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities. Synonym: campy. "Campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"

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"Camp" Quotes from Famous Books

... to serve within the State as State militia during the war there, to cooperate with the troops in the service of the United States in repelling the invasion of the State and suppressing rebellion therein; the said State militia to be embodied and to be held in the camp and in the field, drilled, disciplined, and governed according to the Army Regulations and subject to the Articles of War; the said State militia not to be ordered out of the State except for the immediate defense of the State of Missouri, ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Lincoln - Section 1 (of 2) of Volume 6: Abraham Lincoln • Compiled by James D. Richardson

... Huguenots by copying their own strictness of moral discipline. The very Catholic practice of profane swearing, in which his Majesty was so proficient, was prohibited on pain of severe punishment; and it was prescribed that a sermon should daily be preached in the camp.[1281] A good round oath none the less continued to be received by the soldiers, in all doubtful cases, as a sufficient proof of loyalty to Mother Church, nor did they cease because of the ordinance from ridiculing the idea that such good Christians as they needed ...

— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird

... might 'a' got a stick in the timber by walkin' a few rods. He couldn't 'a' been so bad off as one o' you surveyor chaps was when the gov'ment survey went through. He was off on the Big Perairie, footin' it to his camp, when he comes to a rattler curled up in the grass, and shakin' his tarnal buzz-tail at him. He steps back, and casts about him for some sort of we'pon; he hadn't a thing in his fist but a roll of paper, and if ...

— The Young Surveyor; - or Jack on the Prairies • J. T. Trowbridge

... to say, that from the middle of January, 1877, until the following October, the most prominent theme of public discussion was this question of suffrage for women. Miners discussed it around their camp-fires, and "freighters" on their long slow journeys over the mountain trails argued pro and con, whether they should "let" women have the ballot. Women themselves argued and studied and worked earnestly. One lawyer's ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

... is it with regard to diet. The person who talks learnedly about germs and calories (though he never saw a germ or measured a calorie in his life) will be found in the same camp with the electric light advocate, while this other who cultivates a taste in harmony with Nature by consuming what he likes best of her unaltered products, he is found arm in arm with the sun-bather. But Science will by no means allow him to eat his uncooked food in peace. "If ...

— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various

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