campaign
/kæmˈpeɪn/
campaign noun: a series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
Noun
campaign (plural campaigns)
- A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
- an election campaign
- a military campaign
- A player or team's efforts during a sporting season.
- His campaign for Hampshire was very good.
- A series of play sessions using the same player characters, forming a continuous narrative.
- The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
- An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
- An excursion into the countryside.
Verb
campaign (third-person singular simple present campaigns, present participle campaigning, simple past and past participle campaigned)
- To take part in a campaign.
- She campaigned for better social security.
- But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons...2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 08 May 2025
- To consistently ride in races for a racing season.
- After modifying her for ocean racing, he campaigned her for three years, and in 1975, donated her to the U.S. Naval Academy.1983 May, “Jack King: Merrythought”, in Yachting, volume 153, number 5, page 110
- The "more curious" were the affluent planters who bred and campaigned race horses in quarter races, the only form of racing practiced in the Virginia colony during the first 125 years of its existence.1983, Alexander Mackay-Smith, The colonial quarter race horse, page 14
campaign meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
campaign in Hindi
- series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal
- मुहिम muhim, अभियान abhiyān
campaign in Tamil
- பிரச்சாரம், பரப்புரை, இயக்கம், விளம்புகை, செயல்பாடு, போர்த்தொடர்
campaign in Marathi
- campaign
- मोहीम mohīm
campaign in Urdu
- series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal
- مُہِم muhim, کارْزار kārzār
More languagesFewer languages
- campaign in Bengali
- প্রচার procar
- campaign in Malayalam
- സമരഘട്ടം, മത്സരഘട്ടം, നിശ്ചിത യുദ്ധരംഗത്തെ സൈനികപ്രവർത്തനങ്ങൾ
- campaign in Kannada
- ಚಳವಳಿ, ಆಂದೋಲನ, ದಂಡಯಾತ್ರೆ, ಪ್ರಚಾರ ಮಾಡು
- campaign in Punjabi
- ਮੁਹਿੰਮ, ਪ੍ਰਚਾਰ ਮੁਹਿੰਮ
- campaign in Gujarati
- ઝુંબેશ, અભિયાન, પ્રચાર
- campaign in Odia
- ଅଭିଯାନ, ପ୍ରଚାର ଅଭିଯାନ
- campaign in Nepali
- अभियान, प्रचार अभियान, अभियान गर्न
- campaign in Tagalog
- kampanya
- campaign in Arabic
- حَمْلَة ḥamla
- campaign in Malay
- kempen, berkempen
- campaign in Indonesian
- kampanye
- campaign in Thai
- การรณรงค์ gaan-ron-ná-rong, การหาเสียง gaan-hǎa-sǐiang, หาเสียง hǎa-sǐiang, รณรงค์ ron-ná-rong
- campaign in Vietnamese
- chiến dịch, vận động, tham gia chiến dịch, đi chiến dịch
- campaign in Myanmar
- စစ်ဆင်ရေး cachcang-re:
Examples of campaign in a sentence
- The company is targeting children in its latest advertising campaign.
- He was given three days to campaign for the post of president in his school.
- The Canaries went ahead when the home defence failed to clear their lines and Pilkington was on hand to slide in his eighth goal of the campaign.2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2021:
- But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian, archived from the...
- It was campaigned by David Pearson and Bobby Allison during the 1969 through 1972 seasons.2002, John Albert Craft, Mustang Race Cars, →ISBN, page 124:
- Ron campaigned the car for a couple seasons before selling it to Mark Danekas (Danekas blowers), who ran the car himself briefly before putting it on the market once again.2014, Doug Boyce, chapter 1, in Drag Racing's Quarter-Mile Warriors: Then & Now, page 31:
Synonyms of campaign
Forms of campaign
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | campaigns |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | campaigns |
| present participle | campaigning |
| past participle | campaigned |
| past | campaigned |
Origin of campaign
From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campania, campagna, and champagne.
Words formed from campaign
- advertising campaign
- anticampaign
- campaign button
- campaign group
- campaign hat
- campaignist
- campaignlike
- campaign plan
- campaignspeak
- campaign trail
- campaign wig
- countercampaign
- cybercampaign
- e-campaign
- election campaign
- fear campaign
- front porch campaign
- midcampaign
- military campaign
- multicampaign
- noncampaign
- plan of campaign
- political campaign
- postcampaign
- pre-campaign
- precampaign
- rumor campaign
- rumour campaign
- scare campaign
- smear campaign
- whisper campaign
- whispering campaign
- campaigner
- outcampaign
- recampaign
Phrases with campaign
Words that rhyme with campaign
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- drain
- pane
- gain
- main
- sustain
- vein
- entertain
- skein
- Wayne
- abstain
- bane
- champagne
- crane
- entrain
- fain
- insane
- maine
- pain
- plane
- stain
- wane
- Aquitaine
- ascertain
- chicane
- contain
- detain
- explain
- maintain
- mundane
- obtain
- refrain
- remain
- vane
- amain
- arcane
- Blaine
- complain
- deign
- detrain
- distrain
- kane
- ordain
- pertain
- profane
- public domain
- reign
- swain
- terrain
Questions about campaign
- What does campaign mean?
- Campaign means a series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
- What is campaign in Hindi?
- Campaign in Hindi is मुहिम (muhim), अभियान (abhiyān). See Campaign meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use campaign in a sentence?
- The company is targeting children in its latest advertising campaign.
- What part of speech is campaign?
- Campaign can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce campaign?
- Campaign is pronounced /kæmˈpeɪn/.
- What is the plural of campaign?
- The plural of campaign is campaigns.
Words near campaign in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: campaign (page history and authors); campaign (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); मोहीम (Marathi) (page history and authors); campaign (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); campaign (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); campaign (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); campaign (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); campaign (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); campaign (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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