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camp   (TTS Sound)

The noun camp has 8 senses

• camp, encampment, cantonment, bivouac -- (temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling")


• camp -- (a group of people living together in a camp; "the whole camp laughed at his mistake")


• camp -- (temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers; "level ground is best for parking and camp areas")


• clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, camp -- (an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose)


• camp -- (a penal institution (often for forced labor); "China has many camps for political prisoners")


• camp -- (something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality; "the living room was pure camp")


• camp, refugee camp -- (shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs)


• camp, summer camp -- (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")

The verb camp has 3 senses

• camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent -- (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")


• camp, camp down -- (establish or set up a camp)


• camp -- (give an artificially banal or sexual quality to)

The adj camp has 1 sense

• camp, campy -- (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")