camps

Noun

camp (countable and uncountable, plural camps)

1. An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
   • Near-synonyms: campsite, campground, encampment

   Synonyms:

   campsite, campground, encampment

2. An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
   • I met my best friend last summer at camp. She lives in Albany and plays the clarinet.
3. A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
   • Near-synonym: encampment

   Synonyms:

   encampment

4. A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.
   • Near-synonyms: concentration camp, labor camp, reeducation camp, gulag, stalag, prison camp

   Synonyms:

   concentration camp, labor camp, reeducation camp, gulag, stalag, prison camp

5. A single hut or shelter.
   • a hunter’s camp
6. (collective) The company or body of persons encamped.
   • The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter IX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...

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