Synonyms: 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
Similar words: military quarters
Definition: living quarters for personnel on a military post
Synonyms: camp
Definition: temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
Usage: level ground is best for parking and camp areas
Similar words: housing, living accommodations, lodging
Definition: structures collectively in which people are housed
Synonyms: camp
Definition: a penal institution (often for forced labor)
Usage: China has many camps for political prisoners
Similar words: penal facility, penal institution
Definition: an institution where persons are confined for punishment and to protect the public
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: site, land site
Definition: the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)
Usage: a good site for the school
Synonyms: refugee camp, camp
Definition: shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
Similar words: shelter
Definition: temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons
Synonyms: camp
Definition: something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
Usage: the living room was pure camp
Similar words: triteness, staleness
Definition: unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed
Synonyms: clique, camp, pack, coterie, ingroup, inner circle
Definition: an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
Similar words: circle, band, lot, set
Definition: an unofficial association of people or groups
Usage: the smart set goes there; they were an angry lot
Synonyms: camp
Definition: a group of people living together in a camp
Usage: the whole camp laughed at his mistake
Similar words: gathering, assemblage
Definition: a group of persons together in one place
Synonyms: camp
Definition: give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Definition: establish or set up a camp
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: dwell, live, inhabit, populate
Definition: inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
Usage: People lived in Africa millions of years ago; The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted; this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean; deer are populating the woods
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
Similar words: tasteless
Definition: lacking aesthetic or social taste