camp
An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
Noun 4 meanings
An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
“Near-synonyms: campsite, campground, encampment”
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.”
A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
“Near-synonym: encampment”
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”
Verb 4 meanings
To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
“We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.”
To set up a camp.
To afford rest or lodging for.
To stay in an advantageous location.
“Some players like to camp next to a power-up's spawning point.”
Adjective 3 meanings
Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
Ostentatiously flamboyant or effeminate.
Intentionally tasteless or vulgar; self-parodying.
Etymology
From 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”).
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CAMP at a glance
CAMP has 4 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (C 3 + A 1 + M 3 + P 3) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,639 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with camp
All rhymesOne letter away
- CAME8
- LAMP8
- COMP10
- RAMP8
- DAMP9
- CAMS8
- CARP8
- CAMO8
- VAMP11
- CAMI8
- TAMP8
- CAMA8
- SAMP8
- GAMP9
- CALP8
- CAUP8
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