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Noun camp has 8 senses
- camp, encampment, cantonment, bivouac - temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
--1 is a kind of military quarters
--1 has particulars: boot camp; hutment; laager, lager
- camp - a group of people living together in a camp; "the whole camp laughed at his mistake"
--2 is a kind of gathering, assemblage
--2 has particulars: hobo camp, jungle
- camp - temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers; "level ground is best for parking and camp areas"
--3 is a kind of housing, lodging, living accommodations
--3 has particulars: tennis camp; trailer camp, trailer park
- clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, camp - an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
--4 is a kind of set, circle, band, lot
--4 has particulars:
- camp - a prison for forced laborers; "China has many work camps for political prisoners"
--5 is a kind of prison, prison house
--5 has particulars:
- camp - something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality; "the livingroom was pure camp"
--6 is a kind of triteness, staleness
- camp, refugee camp - shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
--7 is a kind of shelter
- camp, summer 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"
--8 is a kind of site, land site
--8 has particulars: day camp
Verb camp has 3 senses
- camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent - 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"
--1 is one way to dwell, shack, reside, live, inhabit, people, populate, domicile, domiciliate
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- camp, camp down - establish or set up a camp
--2 is one way to pitch, set up
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- camp - give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
--3 is one way to change, alter, modify
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