DICTOMETER

CAMP

(camp, acampar, campamento, leir, slå leir)

1. Synonyms:
   • Camp
   • Encampment
   • Cantonment
   • Bivouac
   Definitions:
   • temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
   Examples:
   • Wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Camp
   Definitions:
   • a group of people living together in a camp
   Examples:
   • The whole camp laughed at his mistake
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Camp
   Definitions:
   • temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
   Examples:
   • Level ground is best for parking and camp areas
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Clique
   • Coterie
   • Ingroup
   • Inner circle
   • Pack
   • Camp
   Definitions:
   • an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Camp
   Definitions:
   • a penal institution (often for forced labor)
   Examples:
   • China has many camps for political prisoners
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Camp
   Definitions:
   • something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
   Examples:
   • The living room was pure camp
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Camp
   • Refugee camp
   Definitions:
   • shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Camp
   • Summer camp
   Definitions:
   • a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
   Examples:
   • City kids get to see the country at a summer camp
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Camp
   • Encamp
   • Camp out
   • Bivouac
   • Tent
   Definitions:
   • live in or as if in a tent
   Examples:
   • Can we go camping again this summer?
   • The circus tented near the town
   • The houseguests had to camp in the living room
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Camp
   • Camp down
   Definitions:
   • establish or set up a camp
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Camp
   Definitions:
   • give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Camp
   • Campy
   Definitions:
   • providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
   Examples:
   • They played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect
   • Campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's
   Antonyms:
   • Tasteful