camp
temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,064 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 17,190 times across 173,849 chapters — 0.008% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers also: encampment, cantonment, bivouac 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
- temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers level ground is best for parking and camp areas
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose also: clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack
- a penal institution (often for forced labor) China has many camps for political prisoners
- something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality the living room was pure camp
camp in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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In the camp, on the hustings, at the bar, in the pulpit.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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The mob decided to take the remaining brother out to Camp Parapet and hang him there.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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She had written him soon after--an invitation for a week-end at her mother's camp in the woods.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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White as a sea-fog, landward bound, The spectral camp was seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, The river flowed between.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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Finally he stepped ashore just below the camp, stamped his feet vigorously free of water, and approached the group around the cooking-fire.
The Riverman · Stewart Edward White · Chapter 1