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Definitions of camp
  1. noun
    an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
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  2. verb
    establish or set up a camp

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  3. 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"

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  4. noun
    shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs

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  5. noun
    temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
    "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
  6. verb
    live in or as if in a tent
    "Can we go camping again this summer?" "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"
  7. 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"

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  8. noun
    a group of people living together in a camp
    "the whole camp laughed at his mistake"
  9. noun
    a penal institution (often for forced labor)
    "China has many camps for political prisoners"
  10. verb
    give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
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  11. noun
    something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
    "the living room was pure camp"
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  12. noun
    temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
    "level ground is best for parking and camp areas"
Examples of camp
  • "city kids get to see the country at a summer camp"
  • "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
  • "Can we go camping again this summer?"
  • "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"
  • "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"
  • "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"
  • "the whole camp laughed at his mistake"
  • "China has many camps for political prisoners"
  • "the living room was pure camp"
  • "level ground is best for parking and camp areas"
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