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Also see: camping | gas
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
camp1
▶noun
- 1 a place with temporary accommodation used by soldiers, refugees, or travelling people.
■ a complex of buildings for holiday accommodation.
- 2 (also summer camp) N. Amer. a summer holiday programme for children, offering a range of activities.
- 3 the supporters of a particular party or doctrine regarded collectively.
- 4 Brit. Archaeology a prehistoric enclosed or fortified site, especially an Iron Age hill fort.
- 5 S. African a fenced field or enclosed area for grazing.
■ Austral./NZ a place where livestock regularly congregate.
- 1 live or stay temporarily, especially in a tent or caravan while on holiday.
- 2 Austral./NZ (of livestock) assemble together.
- 3 S. African divide (land) and enclose it with fences.
– phrases
break camp take down a tent or the tents of an encampment ready to leave.
break camp take down a tent or the tents of an encampment ready to leave.
– origin C16: from Fr. camp, champ, from Ital. campo, from L. campus ‘level ground’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
camp2 informal
▶adjective (of a man) ostentatiously and extravagantly effeminate.
■ deliberately exaggerated and theatrical in style.
▶noun camp behaviour or style. ▶verb (usu. camp it up) (of a man) behave in a camp way.– derivatives
campery noun,
campily adverb,
campiness noun,
campy adjective.
campery noun,
campily adverb,
campiness noun,
campy adjective.
– origin early 20th cent.: of unknown origin.

