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campong

campong is the obsolete spelling of kampung.

Meaning of kampung

Noun

kampung (plural kampungs)

  1. (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore) A traditional village.
    • They came from solitary huts in the wilderness, from populous campongs, from villages by the sea. At the call of an idea they had left their forests, their clearings, the protection of their rulers, their prosperity, their poverty, the surroundings of their youth and the graves of their fathers.1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 14
  2. (Singapore) A district or suburb where a former village once stood.
    • Kampung Tanah Merah.

Forms of campong

pluralcampongs

Questions about campong

What is campong the obsolete spelling of?
Campong is the obsolete spelling of kampung.

Words near campong in the dictionary

  1. Campolide
  2. Campolis
  3. Campolongo
  4. campomelia
  5. campomelic
  6. campong
  7. campongs
  8. camponotine
  9. camponotines
  10. campoo
  11. campoos

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: campong (page history and authors); kampung (page history and authors). 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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