campnoun
uk/kæmp/us/kæmp/camp noun (TENTS/BUILDINGS)
B1 [ C or U ] a place where people stay in tents or other temporary structures:
B2 [ C ] an area where people are kept temporarily for a particular reason:
B2 [ C or U ] a place where soldiers stay when they are training or fighting a war:
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- 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.
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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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camp noun (OPINION)
[ C, + sing/pl verb ] a group of people who share an opinion, especially a political one:
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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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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:
[ 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:
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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)
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:
using bright colours, loud sounds, unusual behaviour, etc. in a humorous way:
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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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