- camp
- {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun1 in tents/hutsADJECTIVE▪ makeshift, temporary▪ day (AmE), holiday (BrE), sleepaway (AmE), summer▪ basketball, football, music, etc. (all esp. AmE)▪
The kids were at basketball camp most of the summer.
▪ scout▪ base▪The mountaineers set up their base camp at the foot of the mountain.
▪ Gypsy, travellers' (BrE)▪ army, boot, military▪ training▪ rebel, terrorist▪ fishing, hunting (both esp. AmE)▪ miningVERB + CAMP▪ establish, make, pitch, set up▪They established a base camp by the river.
▪We pitched camp just outside the woods.
▪ be located▪ break, strike▪We broke camp early the next morning.
▪ leave▪ attend, go to▪There are opportunities for children to attend summer camps.
▪ attack, destroy, raid▪Militants raided an army camp.
CAMP + NOUN▪ fire (usually campfire)▪We sat around the campfire.
▪ site (usually campsite)PREPOSITION▪ at (a/the) camp▪The children are spending a week at a summer camp.
2 prison, etc.ADJECTIVE▪ concentration, detention, internment, labour/labor, POW, prison, prisoner-of-war, re-education▪ death, extermination▪ transit▪ refugee▪the appalling conditions in the refugee camps
VERB + CAMP▪ be sent to▪ enter▪ liberateCAMP + NOUN▪ inmate▪ guard▪ survivor▪concentration camp survivors
PREPOSITION▪ in a/the camp▪She spent five years in a prison camp.
3 group with shared beliefsADJECTIVE▪ hostile, opposing, rival (esp. BrE), warring▪ ideological, political▪ armed▪The region split into two armed camps.
VERB + CAMP▪ divide into, split intoPREPOSITION▪ in a/the camp▪people in both main political camps
PHRASES▪ have a foot in both camps (= show loyalty to two different groups)▪{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}He can unite the party because he has a foot in both camps.
verbCamp is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑army
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
