camp

Definitions of camp in various dictionaries:

noun - temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers

noun - a group of people living together in a camp

noun - temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers

noun - an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

noun - a penal institution (often for forced labor)

noun - something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality

noun - shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs

noun - a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months

verb - live in or as if in a tent

verb - establish or set up a camp

verb - give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

adj - providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities

A place where tents, huts, or other temporary shelters are set up, as by soldiers, nomads, or travelers.

A cabin or shelter or group of such buildings: gathered branches and grasses for a makeshift camp; had a fishing camp in Vermont.

The people using such shelters: a howl that awakened the whole camp.

A place in the country that offers simple group accommodations and organized recreation or instruction, as for vacationing children: a girls’ summer camp; a tennis camp.

A place where athletes engage in intensive training, especially preseason training.

The people attending the programs at such a place.

Military service; army life.

A group of people who think alike or share a cause; side: The council members disagreed, falling into liberal and conservative camps.

To make or set up a camp.

To shelter or lodge in a camp; encamp: They camped themselves by a river.

An affectation or appreciation of manners and tastes commonly thought to be artificial, vulgar, or banal.

Having deliberately artificial, vulgar, banal, or affectedly humorous qualities or style: played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect.

verb - to live in the open