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camp has 15 distinct synonyms spread across 7 of its 12 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
“wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling”
temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
“level ground is best for parking and camp areas”
an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
a penal institution (often for forced labor)
“China has many camps for political prisoners”
something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
“the living room was pure camp”
shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
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”
establish or set up a camp
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”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for camp come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
give an artificially banal or sexual quality to