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camp - temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling" |
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encampment,
cantonment,
bivouac |
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military quarters living quarters for personnel on a military post
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armed forces,
armed services,
military,
military machine,
war machine the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
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boot camp camp for training military recruits
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hutment an encampment of huts (chiefly military)
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laager,
lager a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons
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camp - a penal institution (often for forced labor); "China has many camps for political prisoners" |
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penal facility,
penal institution an institution where persons are confined for punishment and to protect the public
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concentration camp,
stockade a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)
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labor camp,
labour camp a penal institution for political prisoners who are used as forced labor
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internment camp,
pow camp,
prisoner of war camp,
prison camp a camp for prisoners of war
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prison camp,
prison farm,
work camp a camp for prisoners of war
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camp - temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers; "level ground is best for parking and camp areas" |
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housing,
living accommodations,
lodging structures collectively in which people are housed
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tennis camp a camp where tennis is taught
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trailer camp,
trailer park a camp where space for house trailers can be rented; utilities are generally provided
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camp - something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality; "the living room was pure camp" |
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staleness,
triteness having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging
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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" |
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land site,
site physical position in relation to the surroundings; "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides"
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day camp a camp providing care and activities for children during the daytime
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camp - a group of people living together in a camp; "the whole camp laughed at his mistake" |
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assemblage,
gathering a group of persons together in one place
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hobo camp,
jungle a place where hoboes camp
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camp - shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs |
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shelter a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger
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| Verb |
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camp - 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" |
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encamp,
bivouac,
tent |
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dwell,
inhabit,
live,
populate originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"
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camp - give an artificially banal or sexual quality to |
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alter,
change,
modify remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?"
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camp - establish or set up a camp |
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pitch,
set up set to a certain pitch; "He pitched his voice very low"
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| Adjektiv |
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camp - 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" |
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campy |
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tasteless lacking aesthetic or social taste
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