Kilo Lingo

/kæmp/

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Translation

A place where people stay for a short time in tents or simple huts.

Word origin

From Latin campus, meaning a field, borrowed through French as the word for the field where soldiers camped.

Origin
Latin
Root
campus
English cognates
campus, campaign

Grammar

Gender
Pluralcamps

Examples

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You "make" or "set up" a camp.

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"Summer camp" is a holiday where children stay together.

camped .

"Camp" is also a verb: to sleep outside in a tent.

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This word is part of lesson 21.