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say it: kamp
camp is a noun, verb and adjective meaning "temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers". It carries 12 recorded senses.
temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
“wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling”
military
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”
give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for camp come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.