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单词 champaign
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champaignn.adj.

Brit. /ˈtʃampeɪn/, /ˌ(t)ʃamˈpeɪn/, U.S. /ˈtʃæmˌpeɪn/, /ˌ(t)ʃæmˈpeɪn/
Forms: Middle English champeyn(e, Middle English–1600s champayne, champaine, (1500s chaumpain, chaumpayne, champeine, champant, 1500s–1600s champeigne, 1600s champan, champine), 1500s–1800s champaigne, champain, 1600s–1800s champagne, 1600s– champaign.
Etymology: Middle English champayne, champaigne, < Old French champaigne (= Italian campagna, Spanish campaña, Portuguese campanha) < Latin Campānia ‘plain, level country’, spec. the name of the rich and level province of Italy lying south-west of the Tiber, afterwards specially distinguished as Campagna de Roma; in later Latin (e.g. by Gregory of Tours, c575) applied to many similar tracts, and as a common noun; < campus level field.Taken into English not in the Norman or North French form campaigne , but in that of central French. The pronunciation with /tʃ-/ and stress on first syllable is exemplified already in 14th cent. in alliterative verse. The same accentuation is shown by all English poets from Shakespeare to Tennyson and Browning; but occasional instances with the stress on the second syllable appear in the 19th cent., and some even identify the word in pronunciation with champagne , as if it were from modern French. Webster and Worcester have this pronunciation only. In the 16th cent. there arose a variant champion , champian n. and adj., which in the 17th cent. was much more frequent than the normal form. In the 17th cent. the modern French form campagne was introduced, and was at length established in a differentiated military sense: see campaign n.
A. n.
1. An expanse of level, open country, a plain; a level field; a clearing.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > level place or plain
fieldeOE
wong971
field landOE
woldc1220
flat1296
plainc1325
field placec1384
champaign?a1400
floor?a1400
smeethc1440
plain-land1487
weald1544
champian1589
camp1605
level1623
campaign1628
planure1632
campania1663
esplanade1681
flatland1735
vlakte1785
steppe1837
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1226 To-warde Castelle Blanke he chesez hym the waye, Thurghe a faire champayne, undyr chalke hyllis.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 168 After many iourneyes & many wayes & champaynes trauersid.
1598 Chaucers Dreame in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 364v/2 A large plaine Under a wood, in a champaine.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) i. i. 64 With shadowie Forrests, and with Champains rich'd.
1644 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 105 A plain and pleasant champain.
1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. xv. 66 Who o'er Verona's champain try their speed For the green mantle.
1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 71 Looking round the champaign wide.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in Poems (new ed.) 57 And riversundered champaign clothed with corn.
1844 R. W. Emerson Young Amer. (1875) II. 302 These rising grounds command the champaign below.
2. (without plural or article) as a species of land or landscape: Flat, open country, without hills, woods, or other impediments.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > open (level) land
fieldeOE
champaignc1420
champian1570
overture1579
campagnaa1664
plain1755
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 241 In champeyne eke, and nygh the sees brynke.
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 16 Thens 10. Miles al by Chaumpain..to Farington, standing in a stony Ground in the Decline of an Hille.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 257 Fair Champain with less rivers interveind. View more context for this quotation
a1674 J. Milton Brief Hist. Moscovia (1682) i. 6 The whole Country is Champain.
1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) xv. 519 A hill-country is more beautiful to the eye than champaign.
3. the champaign (without plural): (a) the level, open country, in opposition to the mountains and woods; (b) the country, as opposed to town.
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1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 169/1 She wente thenne into the champeyn to a cyte named Vorulana.
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 99 As well of the hils..as of the plaine and champain.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Wisd. vii. 7 Toward the South, and in the champine.
1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 240 A wilde-beast or a thief may easily be descried in the open champain.
1658 R. White tr. K. Digby Late Disc. Cure Wounds (1660) 39 [In the town] Bands and Cuffs are fouled more in one day, than in ten in the Champain.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 24 Where the mountains sink down upon the champaign, or more level land.
4. The open unenclosed land, as opposed to that partitioned into fields; the moor, fell, or down, unowned, or held in common possession; the common land; = champian n. 4. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > common or unenclosed
common1377
moor1386
common land1470
champestrea1492
common field1523
champaign1555
commons1583
champian1611
commonity1612
public domain1627
commonage1635
commoninga1661
range1707–8
open1733
common area1837
mark1849
veld1852
outdoors1859
wide (also great, vast) open spaces1910
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > common or unenclosed land
lea805
leasea1000
green1190
common1377
tye1407
common field1523
champaign1555
commons1583
champian1611
commonage1635
commoninga1661
open1733
open field1762
mark1849
veld1852
scat-field1881
stray1889
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions Pref. 10 Thei now..conuerted the champeine to tillage, the plaines to pasture, etc.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. 34 The least turfe of hallowed glebe is with God himself of more value than all the Champaigne of Common possession.
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II clxxx, in Poems (1878) III. 182 Mount her hedge, T' enjoy the Champaigne; whilst another mournes In an enclosure.
5.
a. The level open country as the chief scene of military operations; ‘the field’. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] > level country as scene of battle
plainc1385
field1567
champian1579
champaign1600
champian?1611
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. iii. viii. 93 b The armie of the robbers..came downe into the champaine [L. campos], and spoyled the territories of Preneste and Gabes.
1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 86 Not to haue come down all the time of his invasion into the champagne.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 391 Philip, as soon as ever he was come out of the narrow wayes, into the open Champayne, was presently inclosed.
1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome xx. 130 Once arrived on the Italian champain, all his trials would be recompensed.
b. Hence, A field of battle; a battle-field.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun]
fieldeOE
place?c1225
fletc1275
champ of battlec1300
champany?a1400
o laundon?a1400
palaestrac1425
battle-stead1487
fighting-stead1487
open fielda1500
spear-field1508
joining-place1513
camp1525
foughten field1569
battleground1588
Aceldama1607
champian?1611
field of honour1611
champaign1614
standing ground1662
fighting-field1676
battlefield1715
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. iii. §16. 535 To wish any second victorie, in the naked Champans about Cannæ.
1615 T. Heywood Foure Prentises i, in Wks. (1874) II. 221 Your bloods these champaines shall embrue.
1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xvi. 959 His bounding Helmet on the Champain rung.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. x. 58 The bloody champain strew'd with arms.
1840 R. H. Barham Grey Dolphin in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 82 The shrill tones of a trumpet were heard to sound thrice from the champaign.
c. A military expedition into the field; = campaign n. 3. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > [noun] > campaign
campagna1652
campaign1656
campania1679
champaign1684
1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus vi. 142 Attended his Father this Champaign, to instruct himself..in the Rudiments of War.
6. transferred.
a. Open or level expanse; cf. field n.1 18.
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the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > spreading out > an expanse of something
spacea1382
widenessa1382
continuance1398
field1547
sheet1593
universe1598
main1609
reach1610
expansion1611
extent1627
champaign1656
fetch1662
mass1662
expanse1667
spread1712
run1719
width1733
acre1759
sweep1767
contiguity1785
extension1786
stretch1829
breadths1839
outspread1847
outstretch1858
1656 H. More Antidote Atheism ii. iv. 50 To view those Campos natantes..that vast Champain of Water, the Ocean.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 2 All night the dreadless Angel..Through Heav'ns wide Champain held his way. View more context for this quotation
1679 C. Cotton Confinement 8 The wide Champain, of the milky way.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxii. 281 A broad champaigne of undulating ice.
b. Even unruffled surface.
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1836 Random Recoll. Ho. Lords xiii. 288 The tranquil champaign of his face is seldom troubled by anything in the shape of undue warmth or excitement.
7. figurative. ‘Field’ (of view, observation, research, etc.); expanse.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > affair, business, concern > [noun] > field of interest
mattera1387
campa1538
champian1596
domain1764
champaign1839
ground1847
one's line of country1861
1596 E. Spenser View State Ireland The abuses of customes; in which, mee seemes, you have a faire champian layde open unto you.
1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xii. §5. 136 To expatiate a little into a Champian and Field of matter.]
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 19 To bid you the base through the wide, and dusty champaine of the Councels.
1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. iii. 167 Sweeping round the champaign of universal science.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xvi. 379 Indicating the poet's comprehension of the whole champaign, as it were, of a character.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xvi. 392 Slowly spreading in an inert ooze over the social champaign.
B. adj. (or attributive use of the noun)
1. Of the open unenclosed country; of the common land. Obsolete. See champian adj. 3.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [adjective] > common or unenclosed land > relating to
champaignc1430
champian1580
c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) v. xxvi. 139 a In departing of chaumpayne heritages Atwene the worthy and poore.
2. Of the nature of a champaign; level and open; free from hills, woods, enclosures, etc.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [adjective] > and open
fieldya1400
champian1523
champaign1575
fieldish1587
fielden1604
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xviii. 22 There about was some champyon countrey, with corne and medowes.]
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xl. 118 Then he breaketh ouer the champaigne Countries.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 185 b You see..howe champaine a plaine lyeth open for me.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Surveying To take the Plot of..a large Champain Field.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxvii. 59 The Temple stands on an high champain Ground.
1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 555 In champion countries.]
1867 G. Rawlinson Five Great Monarchies IV. i. 33 This tract..was, compared with Armenia, champaign and level.
3. (a) Of the field or open country, field-. (b) Of champaign land.
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1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. at Campál Batálla campál, a champaine warre.
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cxciii, in Poems (1878) IV. 149 Not as they had fought A well-fram'd Champaigne Battle.
1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. i. iv. 43 The land..presents..a champaign view.
1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 143 Glimpses of champaign scenery.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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