camp
1. temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers (Freq. 19)
- wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling
• Syn:
encampment, cantonment, bivouac
• Derivationally related forms:
bivouac (for: bivouac), canton (for: cantonment)
• Topics:
military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
• Hypernyms:
military quarters
• Hyponyms:
boot camp, hutment, laager, lager
2. a group of people living together in a camp (Freq. 7)
- the whole camp laughed at his mistake
• Hypernyms:
gathering, assemblage
• Hyponyms:
hobo camp, jungle
3. temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers (Freq. 6)
- level ground is best for parking and camp areas
• Hypernyms:
housing, lodging, living accommodations
• Hyponyms:
tennis camp, trailer camp, trailer park
4. an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack
• Hypernyms:
set, circle, band, lot
• Hyponyms:
Bloomsbury Group, bohemia, kitchen cabinet, brain trust, loop,
cabal, faction, junto, camarilla, military junta, junta,
mafia, maffia, sect, galere, rogue's gallery, hard core
5. a penal institution (often for forced labor) (Freq. 2)
- China has many camps for political prisoners
• Hypernyms:
penal institution, penal facility
• Hyponyms:
concentration camp, stockade, labor camp, labour camp, prison camp,
internment camp, prisoner of war camp, POW camp, work camp, prison farm
6. something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality (Freq. 1)
- the living room was pure camp
• Derivationally related forms:
campy
• Hypernyms:
triteness, staleness
7. shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
• Syn:
refugee camp
• Hypernyms:
shelter
8. a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
- city kids get to see the country at a summer camp
• Syn:
summer camp
• Hypernyms:
site, land site
• Hyponyms:
day camp
1. live in or as if in a tent (Freq. 7)
- Can we go camping again this summer?
- The circus tented near the town
- The houseguests had to camp in the living room
• Syn:
encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent
• Derivationally related forms:
tenting (for: tent), tent (for: tent), bivouac (for: bivouac), encampment (for: encamp), camper, camping
• Hypernyms:
populate, dwell, live, inhabit
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
2. establish or set up a camp
• Syn:
camp down
• Hypernyms:
pitch, set up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
3. give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
- they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect
- campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's
• Syn:
campy
• Similar to:
tasteless
• Derivationally related forms:
camp (for: campy)
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