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单词 champaign
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champaign


champaign

level and open country
Not to be confused with:champagne – sparkling wine; a pale yellow-gray

Cham·paign

C0234000 (shăm-pān′) A city of east-central Illinois east-northeast of Springfield. Along with the adjoining town of Urbana, it is the site of the University of Illinois' largest campus (established 1867).

cham·paign

C0234200 (shäm-pān′)n. A stretch of level and open country; a plain.
[Middle English champain, from Old French champainge, from Late Latin campānia; see campaign.]
cham·paign′ adj.

champaign

(ʃæmˈpeɪn) n1. (Physical Geography) Also called: campagna an expanse of open level or gently undulating country2. (Military) an obsolete word for battlefield[C14: from Old French champaigne, from Late Latin campānia; see campaign]

cham•paign

(ʃæmˈpeɪn)

n. 1. level, open country; plain. 2. Obs. a battlefield. adj. 3. level and open: champaign fields. [1350–1400; Middle English champai(g)ne < Middle French champa(i)gne < Latin campānia; see campaign]

Cham•paign

(ʃæmˈpeɪn)

n. a city in E Illinois, adjoining Urbana. 59,150.
Thesaurus
Noun1.champaign - extensive tract of level open landchampaign - extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"plain, fieldflat - a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah"flood plain, floodplain - a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to floodingdry land, ground, solid ground, terra firma, earth, land - the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground"llano - an extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America)moorland, moor - open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and mosspeneplain, peneplane - a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movementssnowfield - a permanent wide expanse of snowsteppe - extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia)tundra - a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen
2.Champaign - a university town in east central Illinois adjoining UrbanaIL, Illinois, Land of Lincoln, Prairie State - a midwestern state in north-central United States

Champaign


Champaign

(shămpān`), city (1990 pop. 63,502), Champaign co., E central Ill.; inc. 1860. It adjoins the city of UrbanaUrbana
. 1 City (1990 pop. 36,344), seat of Champaign co., E central Ill., adjoining Champaign; inc. 1833. With Champaign, its twin city, Urbana is a trade, medical, and educational center in a fertile farm area.
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 and is a commercial and industrial center in a fertile farm area. The Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Parkland College are there. The city's economic mainstays are agriculture and the university. Founded in 1855 with the arrival of the Illinois Central RR, Champaign was first called West Urbana.

Champaign

 

a city in the northern USA, in the state of Illinois. Population, 62,000 (1975; including the neighboring city of Urbana and the surrounding metropolitan area, 165,000). Champaign’s industries include machine building and the production of scientific equipment, instruments, and medicines.

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champaign


Related to champaign: Urbana, sparkling wine
  • noun

Synonyms for champaign

noun extensive tract of level open land

Synonyms

  • plain
  • field

Related Words

  • flat
  • flood plain
  • floodplain
  • dry land
  • ground
  • solid ground
  • terra firma
  • earth
  • land
  • llano
  • moorland
  • moor
  • peneplain
  • peneplane
  • snowfield
  • steppe
  • tundra

noun a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana

Related Words

  • IL
  • Illinois
  • Land of Lincoln
  • Prairie State
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