camp1 nouncamp2 verbcamp3 adjective
campcamp1 /kæmp/ ●●● S3 W3 noun 
WORD ORIGINcamp1
Origin:
1500-1600 French, Latin campus ‘field’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A girl's basketball camp is being organized by the City Recreation Department.
- a mining camp in the Yukon
- College students work at a camp for kids from the inner city, leading craft activities and sports competitions.
- He's going to a Boy Scout summer camp for two weeks in August.
- If you like camp, you'll probably enjoy the movie.
- summer camp
- The camp is at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
- The kids will be at camp all day.
- The YMCA is running a day camp with crafts, sports, and water fun.
- Ancient camp sites are still used by people eager to relearn old ways.
- Both camps have long been bound together by a shared interest in the punter's pound.
- He races through a mining camp towards his 20-room mansion with oak floors and a second floor balcony.
- Illegal immigrants would be expelled using chartered transport after being housed in camps set up at ports and airports.
- More than half of the displaced persons live in camps with inadequate shelter.
- She jack-knifed into a sitting position and hastily surveyed their camp.
- Takat Singh ushered me back to camp.
Longman Language Activatora place where people go or stay on holidays
a place where a lot of people go for a holiday, especially one that has a lot of things specially provided for tourists such as hotels, swimming pools, organized activities etc: · Acapulco is one of Mexico's most popular resorts.· Lift tickets at most ski resorts are about $30 to $40 a day.
something such as a museum, place, event etc that tourists want to see: · Graceland, Elvis Presley's former home, is now a tourist attraction that draws more than 600,000 visitors every year.
a place where a lot of people like to go on holiday: · Amsterdam is the Netherlands' most popular tourist destination.· Phuket is an international tourist destination 430 miles south of Bangkok.
a place that a lot of tourists go to, but where hotels, food, gifts etc are more expensive than they should be, and that is often not as pleasant or interesting as tourists expect : · Residents are worried that the president's home town will turn into a tourist trap.
American a place where children go to stay for a short time and do special activities and have fun: · College students work at a camp for kids from the inner city, leading craft activities and sports competitions.· A girl's basketball camp is being organized by the City Recreation Department.summer camp: · He's going to a Boy Scout summer camp for two weeks in August.day camp (=a camp where children go during the day, but come home at night): · The YMCA is running a day camp with crafts, sports, and water fun.
British a place where people, especially families, go for their holidays and where there are a lot of organized activities: · She won a talent show at a holiday camp in Wales.
a holiday during which you travel on a large boat that has entertainment, restaurants, swimming pools etc: · The seven-day cruise stops at Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta and other Mexican resorts.cruise liner/ship: · a luxury cruise ship
a trip in which you visit several different places with a group of other people: · The tour includes stops in Salzburg and Vienna.package tour (=a tour in which all the travel arrangements are made by the tour company): · Package tours that include tickets to Olympic events have sold well.
British /vacation home American a house that someone owns in a place such as the mountains or the coast where they go for their holidays: · Many Swedes have small vacation homes on a lake shore.
a holiday home that you buy with other people, so that each person can spend a period of time there: · They have a timeshare in Majorca.
American /campsite British a place where people can bring tents or vehicles that they sleep in, to stay in while they are on holiday : · Campgrounds in Glacier National Park open in late May and early June.· Most French towns have a municipal campsite.
a cheap hotel where people can stay for a short time while they are travelling on their holidays: · We stayed at a cheap hostel in the centre of Prague.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs
refugee camps
(=put up your tents)· We made camp in a clearing in the woods.
(=put up your tents and arrange the camping place)· The soldiers set up camp outside the city.
(=take down your tents ready to move to a new place)· In the morning it was time to break camp.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· the local army base
· Can you help me load the camping equipment into the boot, please?
(=a fire that you make outside when you are camping)· In the evening we sat around the camp fire.
· They went on a camping holiday in France.
refugee camps· First they had to look for a camp site.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Berry arrived with his party at base camp where he ran into the Kazakh climber Valeri Krishchaty by chance.· The sad thing about it was that most of us felt more at home out in the field than in base camp.· Nearby was the base camp for the New Zealand Division that was away fighting in the front line.· We made it back to base camp, but the machine ran out of fluids just moments after we touched down.· After a while, they dusted me off to base camp.· Consequently, our club got a big play from any and all officer personnel on the base camp.· We walked into this uncovered base camp.· Jim Murphy witnessed the disorder: I remember the sapper attack on the base camp quite well.
· The family were then living in the military camp at Harmoumou.· Behind the sound board, completely unseen by the audience, were rows of tents that appeared not unlike a military camp.· Similar scenes were reported in provincial towns in the vicinity of military camps.· Every military camp has a pit, where prisoners are held.· During the Second World War, Rise had a large military camp.· Salisbury, with its great military camps on the Plain is, above all others, the Army diocese.· Schellenberg's office at Prinz Albrechtstrasse had a military camp bed in one corner for he often spent the night there.
NOUN· Even the March sun looks changed as it splinters off the chrome on the fold-away camp bed.· His Halloween programme Ghostwatch so scared my children that I have had to sleep on a camp bed in their room.· He slept on a camp bed in a room full of the cardboard boxes he had filled with books.· Many men bought their own solar shower bags and camp beds.· Schellenberg's office at Prinz Albrechtstrasse had a military camp bed in one corner for he often spent the night there.· We could actually sleep on the camp bed between the midnight and 6am observations.
· The men I worked with called it academic boot camp.· Corps officials say initiation into their ranks is difficult enough without mixing men and women in boot camp.· Beetle Bailey will go through boot camp again and again, never to be promoted above private.· However, about 25 percent of those who finished boot camp have had problems while on parole.· For Dunbar, 19, who cried during the ceremony, finishing boot camp was the high school graduation he missed.· Navy doctors say the new shoes have cut blister problems in half since the boot camp started issuing them last July.
· He lives almost entirely in the past, remembering life before the war and during his hellish time in a concentration camp.· Anybody who was in a concentration camp as a guard could use that argument.· Would you eat that, unless you were starving to death in a concentration camp? 2.· One character is in the Resistance, another witnesses Hiroshima, another goes to a concentration camp, others stay at home.· It's not like a concentration camp.· Even though it was against Danzig law, these people were all sent to the Reich, presumably to concentration camps.· And we kept another hundred and twenty thousand between 1945 and 1954 in Hitler's old concentration camps.
· In the spring of 1945, the four girls were transported to four more death camps, once by death march.
· More than 13,000 boat people in three Hong Kong detention camps demonstrated against forced repatriation on Nov. 11-12.
· Like steam coming at you from a cooking pot over a camp fire.· Flagg denied there were any fires Tuesday, other than normal cooking or camp fires.· In the evening there is a barbecue dinner around the camp fire, followed by a presentation of Meo dances.· They had warm days and clear, cold nights when they sat round the camp fires or stood guard over the horses.· More than 20 died in a camp fire in 1992, and 50 police were injured during a mass breakout in 1996.· Somewhere a camp fire was lit and we were drawn towards it instinctively.· Making camp fires is still one of the most popular of scouting activities.
· There's a lot more to Jefferson Airhead than rent-a-baggy camp followers.· Generals, recognizing this, turned blind eyes to the excesses of their troops and were sure to provide camp followers.· Banks, accountants, advertising agencies and many other providers of professional services are the camp followers of the multinational army.· The camp followers however caused problems with the authorities.· Much of the hidden diversity of the ancient camp followers remains, silent and unaltered, within the stocks of today.· The majority of the camp followers were however, good honest women who were the wives and sweethearts of the troops.· Whether neighbour, camp follower or convenient snack, the wolves changed little as their owners were transformed.
· Like a holiday camp it was, endless teas and lectures and displays of magic all afternoon.· Some of these studios are like holiday camps.· This was a major provider of not only walking holidays but also package holidays and holiday camps.· There are already cluster holiday camps.· Sir Billy Butlin was the first to deal with the problem of the straying guest in his original holidays camps.· The warning follows tests of pools at schools, hotels, holiday camps and leisure centres in 196 local authorities.· It's absolutely horrifying - makes Holloway look like a holiday camp.· It was in fact the Butlins train, that runs on summer Saturdays to serve the Butlins holiday camp at Pwllheli.
· The labour camp itself was supplied from the straits.· In the rush not to be left behind, scruples about starvation and labour camps are forgotten.· A forced labour camp, they call it.· Alexander Solzhenitsyn held much of his work in his mind while he was in a labour camp.· The bleak prospect of the labour camps, slavery in Siberia?· Before you know it, you're freezing your boots off in a Siberian labour camp.· It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps.· Thousands of members have since been detained in labour camps.
· I was in a friendly country and was less effectively guarded than I ever would be in a prison camp.· In prison camps, cigarettes frequently reach that status.· All the Luftwaffe crews who've ended up in Ireland have been put in prison camps.· This is nothing like the bucolic prison camp where his half-sister Carmella is held.· Generally, short hair is associated in the public mind with convicts, prison camp inmates and the military.· Conditions in Farc prison camps were highlighted last year when television showed the captives in barbed-wire compounds in the jungle.· People don't go out and spend millions turning their homes into prison camps unless there is real fear in the air.· I should wait until I had got to the prison camp and then escape.
· We wanted compensation for what a half-century in refugee camps has done to their lives.· He returned to the refugee camp where his family has lived since 1948.· Villagers from El Barillo ended up in a church-run refugee camp in Calle Real.· Our neighborhood looked like a refugee camp, bursting its seams.· In the Gaza refugee camp of Rafah soldiers shot dead 11-year-old Mohammad Jarbou.· Nurses' housing in the refugee camps was the first step toward what would soon become women-only villages.· As a way of encouraging them to return, food aid to the refugee camps has been withheld since last summer.
· But luckily for golf this was cancelled when the land was ear-marked for a camp site instead.· Ancient camp sites are still used by people eager to relearn old ways.· There are good fish restaurants and a recently opened camp site with full facilities.· As for Dorrainge's complaints, the camp site they had chosen was very good.· The travellers said that as gypsies the council was obliged by law to give them a camp site.· They also patrol camp sites and parking and picnic places.
· Allen said that he called Previn at summer camp in 1991, using the name George Simon.· For Olajuwon, the Dream Team experience has been like a summer camp at a very exclusive boys' club.· Sigua was reported to have fled to the rebel headquarters in a Komsomol summer camp outside Tbilisi to avoid arrest.· This year, too, the Pillow experience was like summer camp for the dancers.· It was running like a well-oiled machine, instead of like a slightly out-of-control summer camp.· Also, the West Coast is where my family, summer camps and friends are.· The Sea Cadets had a summer camp in the naval base at Aultbea with good facilities.· The question of whether children were safe at summer camp or not made for much parental discussion and anxiety.
· They would go to training camp on Friday or Saturday, still no Maradona.· Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps.
· The hideous transit camps are emptying.· While they waited, the Joint put them up at a transit camp just outside Vienna.· While in the transit camp at Lowestoft he was offered a choice of hostels in Belfast, Leeds or London.· The decision, following a public inquiry in February, clears the way for a controversial gipsy transit camp.
VERB· The first days of the war saw the Saltash Territorials ordered to break up camp at Exeter and proceed to Falmouth.· Reaction to the report Thursday broke roughly into two camps.· Violent rioting has broken out in the camps many times in recent weeks.· Henderson broke camp with the Padres in a reserve role.· The Black Book seeks to break with this camp mentality of scholarship.· But when it was time to break camp, it was loaded on Ram Rahim.
· The women and children were sent into the town until the floods subsided and the men were left to guard the camp.· The conflict between my parents was the last real barrier to leaving the camps.· The majority of the displaced are therefore reluctant to leave the camps and prefer what little protection the church can offer.· We got hit about 3 hours af-ter we left camp.· Half an hour after leaving camp, I saw the same lorry, pulled off the road beside a derelict shack.· Amelia was one of 40, 000 sick and starving prisoners left in the camp.· Abdul Aziz Rantisi said they would all leave their camp or none would.· Nor did I dare tell anyone that I did not want to leave the camps.
· In the seventies everyone seemed to live in a trailer camp or in the crevice of a mountain.· More than half of the displaced persons live in camps with inadequate shelter.· Hundreds of thousands of people living in refugee camps and towns near the fighting were scattered and set adrift.· Do your readers know what it is like to live in a refugee camp?· Who else is living in that camp there?· How did people live in the camps, how did some survive, how did some defend themselves?· Beginning in 1976, they withdrew from public view, living in camps in Wyoming and then houses in Dallas and Denver.
· Then, as abruptly as it had pitched camp, the caravan moved on.· Lugh would make the decisions about where they pitched camp and how much bear meat they brought.· That evening they pitched their camp on a shoulder of dry ground above a valley, thankful for the respite.
· He cycled out of 3-Wing on to the Hay-on-Wye road that ran through the camp.· Captain Vilcins, who had studied in Paris, ran the camp administrative board with decisiveness and style.· It is when the Captain, who runs the camp, picks S. for his exclusive use that the novel peaks.· There is a sewage system, hand-dug, which replaced the open trenches that ran through the camp until recently.· Once the service was over the men would start work on the railway that ran alongside the camp.· The next it is two sisters in Rhode Island who run a summer camp for mentally retarded children.
· Workers who lose their jobs are sent to farm camps, along with bureaucrats doing two weeks' hard labour.· There were the political prisoners, sent to concentration camps, who continued to help the Allies.· I suppose I was lucky, I could have been sent to a camp.· Their movements were restricted, though relatively few were sent to camps.· The less fortunate are robbed of everything and sent to labour camps.· Except for her bright clothing, she was decked out like some one about to be sent to a boot camp.· Burun had sent Jotan on to the camp.· To join or be sent to a concentration camp.
· Downing Street's double glazing must have proved invaluable as the camera corps set up camp and squabbled on the doorstep.· Rescue workers, police and other law enforcement agencies set up camp on a levee beside the canal.· Exploring the terrain or even setting up camp leave too many things wide open.· As everyone now knows, we set up camp nearly in the middle of a Viet Cong stronghold.· However, many travellers have set up more fixed camps around the city, which does not have an official site.· Needless to say, entire platoons of soldiers set up camp at his tomb before battle.· An opera set in the camps would be a very different thing.· It boggles my mind how much money it must have cost to set up each base camp.
· Hamed will go on a publicity tour around the States next week before entering training camp on February 16.· Yet Owens is the prize rookie of training camp.· But equally worrying to the security forces was the age of two of the recruits who were being trained at the camp.· Collins was benched last week, the result of a series of events that began in training camp with a broken jaw.· Washington signed late and missed most of training camp.· Raiders owner Al Davis then switched Williams to tight end during training camp.· In idle moments, I have often pictured Id! in the training camps, climbing netted gantries.· The Oilers will open training camp in Nashville on July 18.
· We drank from the crocodile-infested river, and lions visited the camp every night.· Clinton is the fifth president to visit the camp.· It was like visiting a Tartar camp!· The President has already visited a similar camp run by Paul Newman in Connecticut.· But the ski instructress died trying to fulfill her biggest ambition - to visit the Everest base camp.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1in the mountains/forest etc [countable, uncountable] a place where people stay in tents, shelters etc for a short time, usually in the mountains, a forest etc: - A forced labour camp, they call it.
- All the Luftwaffe crews who've ended up in Ireland have been put in prison camps.
- Even so there remain causes for concern in the Labour camp.
- I was in a friendly country and was less effectively guarded than I ever would be in a prison camp.
- More than 13,000 boat people in three Hong Kong detention camps demonstrated against forced repatriation on Nov. 11-12.
- Of these, 55,000 were to be punished either by receiving prison sentences or by being sent to labour camps.
- The men were unloaded in the reception area at Long Kesh Detention Camp and placed in cubicles.
- Then he was chosen, with another senior officer, to run the Athi River Detention Camp.
Let’s go back to camp – it’s getting dark. a camp near Lake Ellen Wilson The soldiers broke camp (=took down their tents etc) and left before dawn.pitch/make camp (=set up a tent or shelter) It was dark by the time we pitched camp. We set up camp (=made the camping place ready) at nearby Icicle Lake. The expedition’s base camp (=main camp) was 6,000 feet below the summit.mining/logging etc camp (=a camp where people stay when they are doing these kinds of jobs)2prison/labour/detention etc camp a place where people are kept for a particular reason, when they do not want to be there: a refugee camp just across the border → concentration camp3for children [countable, uncountable] a place where young people go to take part in activities, and where they usually stay for several days or weeks: The camp offers hiking, fishing, canoeing, and boating. scout camp Two years ago, she started a summer camp for girls aged eight and older.tennis/football etc camp (=a camp where you can do one particular activity) → day camp, holiday camp4group of people [countable] a group of people or organizations who have the same ideas or principles, especially in politics: the extreme right-wing camp of the party At least Lynne is definitely in your camp (=supports you rather than someone else, and agrees with your ideas). → have a foot in both camps at foot1(21)5military [countable] a permanent place where soldiers live or train: Donny is stationed at Camp Pendleton.COLLOCATIONSverbsmake/pitch camp (=put up your tents)· We made camp in a clearing in the woods.set up camp (=put up your tents and arrange the camping place)· The soldiers set up camp outside the city.break camp (=take down your tents ready to move to a new place)· In the morning it was time to break camp.camp1 nouncamp2 verbcamp3 adjective
campcamp2 ●●○ verb [intransitive] WORD ORIGINcamp2
Origin:
1500-1600 French camper, from camp; ➔ CAMP1. camp up 1900-2000 From ➔ CAMP3VERB TABLE
camp
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | camp |
| he, she, it | camps | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | camped |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have camped |
| he, she, it | has camped | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had camped |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will camp |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have camped |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am camping |
| he, she, it | is camping | |
| you, we, they | are camping | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was camping |
| you, we, they | were camping | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been camping |
| he, she, it | has been camping | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been camping |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be camping |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been camping |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A family was camped on a sandy beach under the trees.
- In the first 20 minutes, Ipswich were all over their visitors and were camped permanently in their half.
- On our march we camped one night in a vacant lot adjoining a female seminary at Gordonsville.
- She had her own fishing pole and hiking boots, a sleeping bag in case they decided to camp out.
- The soldiers camped nearby also ran to help.
- They always camped at Dartmeet in summer.
WORD SETS
après-ski, nounbackpack, nounbackyard, nounbandstand, nounbarbecue, nounbarbecue, verbbarbie, nounbarker, nounBBQ, nounbeach ball, nounbeach chair, nounbeachcomber, nounbedroll, nounbig dipper, nounbig top, nounbig wheel, nounbilly, nounbirdseed, nounbird table, nounbivouac, nounbivouac, verbbloodhound, nounboardwalk, nounboating, nounbonfire, nounboomerang, nounbooth, nounbotanical garden, nounbriquette, nouncamp, verbcamper, nouncampground, nouncampsite, nouncampstool, nouncaravan, nouncaravanning, nouncoarse fishing, nouncompass, nouncrampon, nouncrest, verbcruise, verbcruise, nouncruiser, nouncyclist, noundovecot, noundriving range, nounduckboards, noundune buggy, nounfair, nounfairground, nounFerris wheel, nounfête, nounfield glasses, nounfish, verbfisherman, nounfishing, nounfishing line, nounfishing rod, nounfishing tackle, nounflysheet, nounFrisbee, nounfunfair, noungarden party, noungazebo, nounghost train, nounground cloth, noungroundsheet, noungun dog, nounguy, nounhammock, nounhamper, nounhelter-skelter, nounhen house, nounhide, nounhike, nounhike, verbhiker, nounhorsey, adjectiveiron rations, nounjungle gym, nounlido, nounlounger, nounmap-reading, nounmarina, nounmarquee, nounmaze, nounmenagerie, nounmerry-go-round, nounmetal detector, nounminiature golf, nounmonkey bars, nounmud, nounmudbath, nounmuddy, adjectivemud pie, nounnature reserve, nounnook, nounnudist, nounoutdoors, adverboutdoorsy, adjectiveoutfitter, nounpack, nounpack trip, nounpaddle, nounpaddle, verbpaddling pool, nounpageant, nounparade, nounparasol, nounpark, nounpark keeper, nounparkland, nounpatio, nounpavilion, nounpeg, nounpiton, nounpothole, nounPrimus, nounpromenade, nounPunch and Judy show, nounpunt, verbPYO, ramble, verbramble, nounrambler, nounrecreation ground, nounrest area, nounride, nounrod, nounroller coaster, nounroundabout, nounrubber dinghy, nounrucksack, nounrunner, nounRV, nounsailing, nounsailing boat, nounsandcastle, nounshooting stick, nounsite, nounsledge, verbsleeping bag, nounspeleology, nounsport, nounstate park, nounstock car, nounsub-aqua, adjectivesummerhouse, nounsunbathe, verbsundial, nounsun-drenched, adjectivesun lounger, nounsun-worshipper, nounsurfboard, nounswing, nounswing set, nountent, nountheme park, nountoboggan, verbtool, verbtootle, verbtopless, adjectivetorch, nountrain spotter, nounwading pool, nounwalk, nounwalker, nounwalking, nounwater bottle, nounwigwam, nounwilderness area, nounwoodcraft, nounyachting, nounyachtsman, nounyachtswoman, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY camping gear such as a sleeping bag, tent, and backpackCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES refugee camps
camping gear such as a sleeping bag, tent, and backpack· the local army base
· Can you help me load the camping equipment into the boot, please?
(=a fire that you make outside when you are camping)· In the evening we sat around the camp fire.
· They went on a camping holiday in France.
refugee camps· First they had to look for a camp site.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Leaver, then camping out on Oz art director Jonathan Goodchild's floor, joined the staff.· But camped out in their front yard, so to speak, we suddenly felt very exposed.· For two days the children camped out in the hospital waiting-room as their father clung on to life.· It may be a special place where you like to camp out.· They're hippies or gypsies or squatters or whatever, and they've already started camping out there as best they can.· There are two Los Angeles Times reporters camped out there.· The First Spiritualists were camped out at the edge of a grove of birch trees.· We will get some money that normally camps out in stocks going over to the bonds for a while.
· It was less than an hour from dusk, and we would have camped there had it been left to me.· There were often transient correspondents camped there.· I want your assurance that you will always allow genuine gipsies to camp there.· Many newcomers were upset that they would be unable to camp there after having made reservations months in advance.· Many of the dead had camped there.
NOUN· At the public library downtown I return obsessively to the photographs of concentration camps.
· Last night we camped a metre short of the border, a beautiful spot between the upper and lower Sorjus lakes.· Thompson recommends campers come as early as possible on Friday nights for weekend camping.· Their demeanor grew more serious the following night as we camped on a peninsula above the lake.· Hundreds of them had spent the night camped out on the sidewalk in the numbing midwinter cold.
· They ofren grew on the sites, indeed out of the debris, of old refugee camps.
· We camped in the official site at Skaftafell.· Twin Lakes Fish Camp provides trailer hookups, tent camping sites, and several little cottages.· Tonight we camped at the site where the first Smith and Miranda expedition ended.· Towards mid-afternoon we camped close to the site of the old Shyok dam.
VERB· And people living at Simonds Yat in Gloucestershire want to know why Hanger was allowed out of the jail to go camping.· Einar always had his car when we went camping.· He supported orphanages and schools, underprivileged children went on camping holidays at his expense.· In her story, Bunting writes about Lin, who is afraid to leave home to go to camp.· Alyssa is going to camp, and Jason and Alex have summer jobs.· There, they rehearsed, improvised, went camping and played, with Williams becoming one of the boys.· They have this experience, and then they can go camping on their own.· A handful of children went to camp the first year with money provided by the House.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► camp it up
1to set up a tent or shelter and stay there for a short time: - Scouts frequently go hiking and camping.
- And people living at Simonds Yat in Gloucestershire want to know why Hanger was allowed out of the jail to go camping.
- Einar always had his car when we went camping.
- There, they rehearsed, improvised, went camping and played, with Williams becoming one of the boys.
- They have this experience, and then they can go camping on their own.
- You remember Miranda when we went camping?
We’ll camp by the river for the night, and move on tomorrow.camping gear/equipment camping gear such as a sleeping bag, tent, and backpack2go camping to visit an area, especially the mountains or a forest, and stay in a tent: We went camping in the San Bernardino Mountains.camp out phrasal verb1to sleep outdoors, usually in a tent: What he liked best about scouting was camping out.2to stay somewhere where you do not have all the usual things that a house has: We’ll just have to camp out until our furniture arrives.camp something up phrasal verb camp it up informal to deliberately use unnatural body or face movements, in a way that some people think is typical of a homosexual mancamp1 nouncamp2 verbcamp3 adjective
campcamp3 adjective WORD ORIGINcamp3
Origin:
1900-2000 Origin unknownEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- That outfit is so camp.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES refugee camps
1a man who is camp moves or speaks in the way that people used to think was typical of homosexuals2 (also campy American English) clothes, decorations etc that are camp are very strange, bright, or unusual· the local army base
· Can you help me load the camping equipment into the boot, please?
(=a fire that you make outside when you are camping)· In the evening we sat around the camp fire.
· They went on a camping holiday in France.
refugee camps· First they had to look for a camp site.