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| Shopping | The largest selection of CAMP products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | kae'mp |
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| Rhymes | amp / AMP, champ, clamp, and 14 more rhymes in aemp... |
| Meaning | Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities. |
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| Examples | "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's" |
| Synonyms | campy |
| Similar to | tasteless |
| Meaning | Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers. |
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| Examples | "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling" |
| Synonyms | encampment, cantonment, bivouac |
| Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
| Broader | military quarters |
| Narrower | boot camp; hutment; laager, lager |
| Verbs | camp |
| Meaning | A group of people living together in a camp. |
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| Examples | "the whole camp laughed at his mistake" |
| Broader | gathering, assemblage |
| Narrower | hobo camp, jungle |
| Meaning | Temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers. |
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| Examples | "level ground is best for parking and camp areas" |
| Broader | housing, lodging, living accommodations |
| Narrower | tennis camp; trailer camp, trailer park |
| Verbs | camp |
| Meaning | An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose. |
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| Synonyms | clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
| Broader | set, circle, band, lot |
| Narrower | Bloomsbury Group; bohemia; kitchen cabinet; loop; cabal, faction, junto, camarilla; military junta, junta; mafia, maffia; faction, sect; galere, rogue's gallery; hard core |
| Meaning | A prison for forced laborers. |
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| Examples | "China has many work camps for political prisoners" |
| Broader | prison, prison house |
| Narrower | prison camp, internment camp, prisoner of war camp, POW camp; work camp, prison camp, prison farm |
| Meaning | Something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality. |
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| Examples | "the living room was pure camp" |
| Broader | triteness, staleness |
| Adjectives | campy; campy |
| Verbs | camp |
| Meaning | Shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs. |
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| Synonyms | refugee camp |
| Broader | shelter |
| Meaning | A site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months. |
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| Examples | "city kids get to see the country at a summer camp" |
| Synonyms | summer camp |
| Broader | site, land site |
| Narrower | day camp |
| Meaning | Live in or as if in a tent. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
| Examples | "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room" |
| Synonyms | encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent |
| Broader | dwell, live, inhabit |
| Nouns | camper; camping; camp; camp |
| Meaning | Establish or set up a camp. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
| Synonyms | camp down |
| Broader | pitch, set up |
| Meaning | Give an artificially banal or sexual quality to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Broader | change, alter, modify |
| Nouns | camp |
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