Main entry: camp, cantonment, encampment, bivouac
Definition: temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
Usage: wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling
Main entry: camp
Definition: temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
Usage: level ground is best for parking and camp areas
Main entry: camp
Definition: a penal institution (often for forced labor)
Usage: China has many camps for political prisoners
Main entry: camp, summer camp
Definition: a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
Usage: city kids get to see the country at a summer camp
Main entry: refugee camp, camp
Definition: shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
Main entry: camp
Definition: something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
Usage: the living room was pure camp
Main entry: clique, camp, pack, coterie, ingroup, inner circle
Definition: an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
Main entry: camp
Definition: a group of people living together in a camp
Usage: the whole camp laughed at his mistake
Main entry: camp
Definition: give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
Definition: establish or set up a camp
Main entry: bivouac, camp, camp out, tent, encamp
Definition: live in or as if in a tent
Usage: Can we go camping again this summer?; The circus tented near the town; The houseguests had to camp in the living room
Definition: providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
Usage: they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect; campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's