camp follower

1. 1.

   a prostitute who provides service to military personnel

   Broaderprostitute
2. 2.

   a follower who is not a member of an ingroup

   Broaderfollower

Questions about camp follower

What does camp follower mean?

camp follower means "a prostitute who provides service to military personnel". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is camp follower a common word?

camp follower is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.