Camp People Kæmp Tents Place Summer Noun Return

• let's return to camp.
• to pitch/set up camp (= put up tents)
• to break/strike camp (= take down tents)
• a tennis/soccer camp

camp

1. a place where people live temporarily in tents or temporary buildings
• SEE ALSO base camp
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/base-camp
• Let's return to camp.
• to pitch/set up camp (= put up tents)
• to break/strike camp (= take down tents)

Extra Examples

• We broke camp early the next morning.
• We pitched camp just outside the woods.
2. a place where children go in the summer and take part in sports and other activities
• a tennis/soccer camp
• I used to attend a summer music camp for five weeks.
• He spent two weeks at camp this summer.
• a camp counsellor (= somebody who works with young people at a summer camp)
3. a place where people are kept in temporary buildings or tents, especially by a government and often for long periods
• SEE ALSO boot camp (2)
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/boot-camp#bootcamp_sng_2
• They criticized the appalling conditions in the refugee camps.
• a detention/an internment camp
• They were repeatedly beaten by camp guards.
4. a place where soldiers live while they are training or fighting
• SEE ALSO boot camp (1)
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/boot-camp#bootcamp_sng_1
• an army camp
5. a group of people who have the same ideas about something and oppose people with other ideas
• the socialist camp
• We were in opposing camps.
• The region split into two armed camps.
• People are split into two camps on this issue.
• He was a politician who switched camps when it suited him.
6. one of the sides in a competition and the people connected with it
• There was an air of confidence in the England camp.
7. to be involved in or connected with two different groups, especially ones that oppose each other

Word Origin

• noun early 16th cent.: from French camp, champ, from Italian campo, from Latin campus ‘level ground’, specifically applied to the Campus Martius in Rome, used for games, athletic practice, and military drill.