Camp: Definition and part of speech

Camp

  1. n. An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
  2. n. The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.
  3. n. A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.
  4. n. A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter’s camp.
  5. n. The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.
  6. n. A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; — called also burrow and pie.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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