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单词 camp
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campnoun

uk/kæmp/us/kæmp/

camp noun (TENTS/BUILDINGS)

B1 [ C or U ] a place where people stay in tents or other temporary structures:

We pitched/set up camp (= put up our tents) by the lakeside.

B2 [ C ] an area where people are kept temporarily for a particular reason:

a labour/prison/refugee camp

B2 [ C or U ] a place where soldiers stay when they are training or fighting a war:

an army camp

More examples

  • Night had fallen by the time we got back to the camp.
  • an internment camp
  • a prisoner of war camp
  • The play has its setting in a wartime prison camp.
  • He shunts his kids off to a camp every summer.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Camping

  • backpacker
  • billy
  • bivvy
  • bivvy sack
  • campfire
  • campground
  • camping
  • canvas
  • caravan park
  • cot
  • fly
  • flysheet
  • glamping
  • groundcloth
  • groundsheet
  • lean-to
  • peg
  • peg sth out
  • pitch
  • trailer park

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Accommodating people
Places involved in military activity

camp noun (OPINION)

[ C, + sing/pl verb ] a group of people who share an opinion, especially a political one:

The pro-independence camp are demanding a referendum.
The party is divided into two distinct camps over the legislation.

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Groups of people

  • alliance
  • an
  • assemblage
  • band
  • bee
  • corps
  • crop
  • galaxy
  • gang
  • ginger group
  • group
  • grouping
  • quarter
  • think tank
  • threesome
  • throng
  • tribe
  • trio
  • triumvirate
  • wing

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Political movements & groups

campverb

uk/kæmp/us/kæmp/

A2 [ I ] to put up a tent and stay in it for a short while, for example while on holiday:

We camped on one of the lower slopes of the mountain.

[ I or T ] mainly US UK usually encamp to put a group of tents or temporary shelters in one place, or to put someone in a group of tents or temporary shelters:

Troops were camped only 25 miles from the capital.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Camping

  • backpacker
  • billy
  • bivvy
  • bivvy sack
  • campfire
  • campground
  • camping
  • canvas
  • caravan park
  • cot
  • fly
  • flysheet
  • glamping
  • groundcloth
  • groundsheet
  • lean-to
  • peg
  • peg sth out
  • pitch
  • trailer park

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Phrasal verb(s)

camp it up
camp out

campadjective

uk/kæmp/us/kæmp/mainly UK informal US usually campy

(of a man) behaving and dressing in a way that some people think is typical of a gay man:

What's the name of that amazingly camp actor with the high voice and a funny walk?

using bright colours, loud sounds, unusual behaviour, etc. in a humorous way:

Their shows are always incredibly camp and flamboyant.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Affected & insincere

  • affectation
  • affected
  • artificial
  • artsy-fartsy
  • arty-farty
  • cheesy
  • fey
  • forced
  • glib
  • histrionic
  • histrionics
  • hollowly
  • meretricious
  • pious
  • preciously
  • precocious
  • pretension
  • pretentious
  • pseud
  • slick

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