1. Temporary lodgings in the country for travellers or vacationers
   "level ground is best for parking and camp areas"
    
2. (military) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
   "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling";
   - encampment, cantonment, bivouac
    
3. A group of people living together in a camp
   "the whole camp laughed at his mistake"
    
4. A site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
   "city kids get to see the country at a summer camp";
   - summer camp
    
5. A penal institution (often for forced labour)
   "China has many camps for political prisoners"
    
6. Shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
   "Humanitarian aid workers provided essential supplies to the overcrowded refugee camp";
   - refugee camp
    
7. An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
   "The popular girls formed a camp in high school";
   - clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack
    
8. Something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
   "the living room was pure camp"

1. Live in or as if in a tent
   "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"; "Can we go camping out again this summer?";
   - encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent, bivvy up [informal], bivvy [informal]
    
2. Establish or set up a camp
   "The hikers camped down for the night in a clearing";
   - camp down
    
3. [informal] Give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
   "The director camped up the movie scenes for comedic effect"

1. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered, banal or sentimental qualities
   "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect";
   - campy [informal]
    
2. Weal or having unsuitable feminine qualities
   "The actor's camp portrayal of the character was criticized as stereotypical";
   - effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy [Brit, informal], sissified [informal], sissyish [informal], sissy [informal], campy [informal]

Derived forms: campest, camps, camper, camped, camping

See also: poncey [Brit, informal], poncy [Brit, informal], tasteless, unmanful, unmanlike, unmanly

Type of: alter, assemblage, band, change, circle, dwell, gathering, housing, inhabit, land site, live, living accommodations, lodging, lot, military quarters, modify, penal facility, penal institution, pitch, populate, set, set up, shelter, site, staleness, triteness

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