camp

camp is a 4-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.
2. noun. A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.
3. noun. A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.
4. noun. The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.
5. noun. A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie.
6. noun. An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
7. transitive verb. To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.
8. intransitive verb. To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out.
9. noun. To play the game called camp.
10. noun. temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers

    "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"

    Synonyms: bivouac, cantonment, encampment

11. noun. temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers

    "level ground is best for parking and camp areas"

12. noun. a penal institution (often for forced labor)

    "China has many camps for political prisoners"

13. noun. 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"

14. noun. shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
15. noun. something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality

    "the living room was pure camp"

16. noun. an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

    Synonyms: clique, coterie, ingroup, pack

17. noun. a group of people living together in a camp

    "the whole camp laughed at his mistake"

18. verb. give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
19. verb. establish or set up a camp
20. verb. live in or as if in a tent

    "Can we go camping again this summer?"

    "The circus tented near the town"

    Synonyms: bivouac, encamp, tent

21. adjective. providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities

    "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"

    "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"

    Synonyms: campy

Synonyms

bivouac, cantonment, encampment, clique, coterie, ingroup, pack, encamp, tent, campy

Common word forms

camps, campal, camped, camper, camping

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