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Defenition of the word camp

    • Defenition of the word camp

      • Tents, cabins, etc., used as temporary lodgings by a group of travellers, holiday-makers, Scouts, Gypsies, etc.
      • To live in a tent or similar temporary accomodation.
      • temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers; "level ground is best for parking and camp areas"
      • a prison for forced laborers; "China has many work camps for political prisoners"
      • something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality; "the livingroom was pure camp"
      • a group of people living together in a camp; "the whole camp laughed at his mistake"
      • give a camp quality to
      • providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"
      • live in a tent
      • temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
      • a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months; "city kids get to see the country at a summer camp"
      • an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
      • shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
      • give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
      • establish or set up a camp
      • live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"
      • providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940''s"
      • temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
      • temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
      • a penal institution (often for forced labor)
      • a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
      • something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
      • a group of people living together in a camp
      • live in or as if in a tent
      • providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities

    Synonyms for the word camp

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

    Similar words in the camp

      • in poor taste
      • in poor taste(p)
      • tasteless

    Hyponyms for the word camp

      • Bloomsbury Group
      • bohemia
      • boot camp
      • brain trust
      • cabal
      • camarilla
      • concentration camp
      • day camp
      • faction
      • galere
      • hard core
      • hobo camp
      • hutment
      • internment camp
      • jungle
      • junta
      • junto
      • kitchen cabinet
      • laager
      • labor camp
      • labour camp
      • lager
      • loop
      • maffia
      • mafia
      • military junta
      • POW camp
      • prison camp
      • prison farm
      • prisoner of war camp
      • rogue's gallery
      • sect
      • stockade
      • tennis camp
      • trailer camp
      • trailer park
      • work camp

    Hypernyms for the word camp

      • alter
      • assemblage
      • band
      • change
      • circle
      • domicile
      • domiciliate
      • dwell
      • gathering
      • housing
      • inhabit
      • land site
      • live
      • living accommodations
      • lodging
      • lot
      • military quarters
      • modify
      • penal facility
      • penal institution
      • people
      • pitch
      • populate
      • prison
      • prison house
      • reside
      • set
      • set up
      • shack
      • shelter
      • site
      • staleness
      • surname
      • triteness

    Idioms for the word camp

      • resettlement camp
      • refugee camp

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