camp

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  1. noun A place where tents, huts, or other temporary shelters are set up, as by soldiers, nomads, or travelers.
  2. noun A cabin or shelter or group of such buildings: gathered branches and grasses for a makeshift camp; had a fishing camp in Vermont.
  3. noun The people using such shelters: a howl that awakened the whole camp.
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  • He pooh-poohed the whole story, and told his wife that the natives over there in their camp were as well disposed and friendly as if they had been a company of white settlers, and that, as these red men and the whites had lived together so long, trading with each other, and visiting each other with perfect freedom, there was no reason whatever to suppose that the Indians would suddenly determine to rise up and massacre a whole settlement of peaceable neighbors, who had never done them any harm, and who were a great benefit to them in the way of trading. —  Stories of New Jersey
  • The spot we chose for our camp was a high sandy ridge, on which grew a group of pines, affording shelter and firewood, while a stream flowed near, into the bottom, where it was lost to view Carlos, who was tired and somewhat out of sorts, remained with Tim and Jup to form the camp, while Lejoillie and I set out with our guns in search of game. —  In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting
  • Oftener they slept Only in one corner of the camp was there any sign of activity. —  Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918
  • Then, still obstinately disinclined for sleep, he went out to explore the camp At one end of the camp is a hut, a long, low building. —  Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918
  • And several miles from the camp was the start of a series of rolling hills. —  Attrition
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  1. Obsolete French, perhaps from Italian or Spanish campo, all from Latin campus, field.
  2. Origin unknown.

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  1. from Middle English camp, comp, battle, conflict (cf. campynge, foot-ball), from Anglo-Saxon camp, comp, battle, conflict, = OFries. kamp, komp = Dutch kamp = Middle Low German kamp = Old High German camp, kamph, champf, Middle High German G. kampf, a fight, battle, especially in older use, of a fight between two, = Swedish Danish kamp, battle, conflict, = Icelandic kapp (assimilated from kamp), contest, zeal, eagerness, vehemence, a race (cf. Old Danish kap, zeal, now only in the phrase om kap, in competition); regarded by some as an orig. Teutonic word, but prob. from Latin campus, a field, a plain, later sometimes a battle-field, in Middle Latin also a camp, battle: see camp.
  2. from Middle English campen, from Anglo-Saxon campian (= OFries. kampa, kempa = Dutch kampen = Old High German chamfan, chemfan, Middle High German kempfen, German kämpfen = Danish kœmpe = Swedish kämpa), fight, contend, from camp, a conflict: see the noun. In def. 2, cf. freq. cample.
  3. from French camp, a camp, formerly also a field, a parallel form to champ, a field, = Provencal camp = Spanish Portuguese Italian campo, from Latin campus, a field, a plain, a place of action, in Middle Latin also a camp, a battle, = Greek κῆπος, Dor. κᾶπος, a garden, orchard, plantation: see camp.
  4. from camp, n.
  5. from Latin campa, campe, from Greek κάμπη, a caterpillar.
 

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