Camp
From Fresh Dictionary
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English
| Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg. | ||||||
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| share | working | breath | #989: camp | prove | engaged | America |
Etymology
From Latin campus
Noun
Camp (plural Camps)
- An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
- An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accomodation.
- A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
- A group of people with the same ideals or political leanings, strongly supported.
- An effected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
Translations
outdoor place
organized event
base
group
style
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Adjective
camp (comparative camper, superlative campest)
- Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
- (of a gay man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
- Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.
- (no comparative or superlative) Of or related to a camp.
- The camp kitchen provides three hot meals a day.
Translations
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- Czech : teatrálnÃ, afektovaný
Verb
to camp (third-person singular simple present camps, present participle camping, simple past camped, past participle camped)
- To live in a tent or similar temporary accomodation.
- We camped in the field until Sunday.
- To stay in an advantageous location in a first-person shooter game, for example, next to a power-up or to guard an area.
- The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.
- They camped the flag as usual, so we couldn't even get near it.
- To behave in a camp manner.
- When I played Malvolio in Twelfth Night, I really camped it up.
Translations
Related terms
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