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Meaning camp meaning

What does camp mean?
Definitions in simple English

camp

If you camp, you stay in a place, usually outside of the city for a short time. I hope we can go camping in the mountains this summer.

camp

temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling a group of people living together in a camp the whole camp laughed at his mistake (= tent) live in or as if in a tent Can we go camping again this summer? The circus tented near the town The houseguests had to camp in the living room temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers level ground is best for parking and camp areas a penal institution (often for forced labor) China has many camps for political prisoners (= clique) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality the living room was pure camp (= campy) 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 (= summer camp) 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 shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs establish or set up a camp give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

Synonyms camp synonyms

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cAMP English » English

cyclic adenosine monophosphate cyclic AMP

Topics camp topics

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Conjugation camp conjugation

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camp · verb

Examples camp examples

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Simple sentences

The prisoners fled from the concentration camp.
Tom spent three years in a prison camp.
I would like to join the summer camp.
The refugees in that camp have been living from hand to mouth for a month.
I persuaded her after all and went to camp.
They are in the same camp.
You went back to the camp leaving me alone in the primeval forest.
Until the morning, the camp of the enemy army was surrounded.
You can't camp on the moon.
Dadaab is a refugee camp in Kenya.
We met at summer camp.
The children are singing around the camp fire.
The refugees took shelter in a refugee camp from the Red-Cross.
We'll camp here.
The soldiers will soon return to camp.
We made camp near the lake.
At the summer camp, she was in charge of the group I belonged to.
We came back to camp before dark.
He returned to the army camp.
Tom arrived at the camp safely.
Tom sent Mary to summer camp.

Movie subtitles

He just walked right into camp!
People weren't taking too kindly me being at camp 'cause apparently I stole food from the shed and then burned it down.
Try to convince me to come back, to the camp?
I think it's safer here than being back at camp where a bunch of people don't like me thanks to you, making those wild accusations.
At the camp.
Remember the way she came into camp?
It seems like everybody at camp was convinced that I was the person that hurt her.
Oh, my God, it's my letter from camp.
No Thanksgiving, no camp. No kiss.
Uh, he's got an early flight he's covering, some nudist golf camp in Florida.
Ok, we make camp.
While the fires of the Turkish camp burned red in the distance, the emperor ordered the last procession of the Virgin Protector.
Terrified, Theonis runs back to camp.
In the dark of night, Ramphis slips into camp, Releases Theonis and ties the slaver to the palm.
How on earth can they move camp that quickly?
He's Gen. Fleury's man. He heads the pro-Arab camp that wants to sell out Algeria.
The Emperor declared it an Arab Kingdom, a European colony and a military camp.
Camp.
Who was gone from camp, Zeke?
I got a feeling that if either one of 'em leaves camp, they'll never come back.
How long are we gonna camp here?
Well, anyway, I'm going to keep warm by the camp.
They've jumped camp, Zeke, and I'm off on their trail.
Camp down below the south creek for the next 3 or 4 weeks. Remember?
You get the boys to make camp here.
We'll camp here, Riano.
You boys can camp up there.
You better call the rest of the boys back into camp.
No Thanksgiving, no camp.
Eighteen hours ago, the Agency sent an undercover team to extract her from a labor camp in the Yunnan province.
If any of you passengers want a place to sleep. you'll find an auto camp up yonder a piece.
Dyke's Auto Camp.
She's waiting for me in an auto camp outside Philadelphia.
She phoned her father from an auto camp to come get her.
Come! Back to camp, men!

News and current affairs

One camp argued that the recession in the United States would be V-shaped - short and shallow.
Whether or not he was solely to blame, a true opportunity for historical compromise was missed at Camp David in August 2000, and he himself acknowledged it a year later.
More recently, both at Camp David and at Taba in Egypt, Arab negotiators again rejected proposals that would have led to the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Three years later, with Emperor Tewodros still refusing to release them, the British dispatched an expeditionary force of 13,000 troops, 26,000 camp followers, and 44 elephants.
Murdering more than 60 innocent young people at a summer camp with an assault rifle, after bombing a chunk of central Oslo, is, to put it mildly, morally eccentric - something most sane people would never dream of doing.
The threat of return to power by Meciar forced all democrats, leftist or rightist, into one camp.
The recent Greek crisis has further galvanized the anti-CDS camp.
The horrible murder of Giovanna Reggiani that took place near a Romanian refugee camp in the suburb of Tor di Quinto in Rome shocked both Italy and Romania.
No minority is, after all, homogenous, which was demonstrated by the fact that the person who alerted the police was a compatriot of the killer and from the same camp of refugees.
Mailat sought escape from his Romanian misery and his Romanian past, but could not imagine that he would find in an Italian refugee camp as much misery as before; that the image in the mirror of his daily new life would be that of a killer.
One bitterly cold March day, I joined a few friends on a trip to the former camp.
We are now back to the starting point: the Camp David and Taba talks - flippantly abandoned in January 2001 - are to be taken up again.
One might fear that Camp David proves to be the tragedy and Annapolis the farce.
Tourists complained that the summer holiday they had planned on a Greek island was now in the midst of a refugee camp.
GAZA - This was supposed to be my first year of medical school. Instead, I am stuck here in Gaza, in my father's house inside the Jabalia refugee camp, with few options and no way out.
It raised the stakes for the island's pro-independence camp and increased the risk of a cross-Strait military conflict.
There are now serious concerns that the so-called dark greens - the harder-line faction in Taiwan's pro-independence pan-green political camp - will seize this issue as a stick with which to beat President Chen.
The pro-EU camp, by contrast, has to sell the reality of the EU as it is, warts and all.
French Jews are rediscovering the dual trauma that they experienced during the twentieth century: the death-camp deportations of World War II and their flight from Algeria following its independence in 1962.
Instead, I am stuck here in Gaza, in my father's house inside the Jabalia refugee camp, with few options and no way out.
A possible military response could involve the Indian army establishing a camp of its own on Chinese territory elsewhere that China's leaders regard as highly strategic.

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