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camus

camus is the obsolete form of camis.

Meaning of camis

Noun

camis (plural camises)

  1. (obsolete) A light, loose dress or robe.
    • All in a camis light of purple silk.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 2

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Camus

Camus

  1. A surname from French.
  2. Albert Camus, French author and philosopher

Proper noun (2) capitalized: CAMUS

CAMUS

  1. Royal Corps of Army Music (a corps of the British Army).
    Synonyms:
    RCAM

Synonyms of camus

Origin of camus

From the French surname, from the adjective camus (“flat-nosed”). This also appears as Spanish and Catalan camús, cognate with the French word.

Acronym of Corps of Army Music, which is the erstwhile name of the corps.

Words formed from camus

Questions about camus

What does camus mean?
Camus means a surname from French.
What is camus the obsolete form of?
Camus is the obsolete form of camis.
What part of speech is camus?
Camus is a proper noun.

Words near camus in the dictionary

  1. Camuns
  2. Camurati-Engelmann disease
  3. Camurati-Engelmann syndrome
  4. camuropiscid
  5. camuropiscids
  6. camus
  7. Camusian
  8. Camuy
  9. Camwell
  10. camwheel
  11. camwheels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: camus (page history and authors); Camus (page history and authors); CAMUS (page history and authors); camis (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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