camp

About 38.53 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.

   There's a big camp in the woods northwest of here. It's popular with hikers and bushcrafters.

2. noun 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.

3. noun A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.

   Signs of enemy recon were found near their camp last week.

4. noun A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.

   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.

5. noun A single hut or shelter.

   a hunter’s camp

6. noun The company or body of persons encamped.
7. noun A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.

   She's in the camp that speaks as if all vaccines were poisons.

8. noun An army.

Similar words

encamp encampment camp out bivouac summer camp pack cantonment coterie inner circle clique

Often followed by

and of in at was to on for david

Word family

Camp Walter Camp Walter Chauncey Camp camped camping camps