1(in Arthurian legend) the place where King Arthur held his court.

1. 1.1as noun a Camelot A place associated with glittering romance and optimism.
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   • His death in 1631 marked the end of this glittering Italian Camelot.
   • The Camelots of higher education and cinema studies are repeatedly pelted by a wide, devious variety of assault weapons: distance learning, work speed-ups, part-timer labor, budget cutbacks.
   • All we have are the myths, the images, their particular Camelots that say particular things about our two countries.
   • Camelots come up and go down.
   • Over the centuries, the hill became in folk memory a sort of Bulgarian Camelot and is now a revered national historic site.