/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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