An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
Near-synonyms: campsite, campground, encampment
An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
I met my best friend last summer at camp. She lives in Albany and plays the clarinet.
The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that comprises all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
Initialism of cyclic AMP.
To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.
To set up a camp.
Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
Ostentatiously flamboyant or effeminate.
More recently the word has become colloquial English for either implying that someone is a homosexual (‘he's very camp’), or for describing rather outre behaviour[…]
A diminutive of the male given name Campbell.
A surname.
A placename
From Middle English kampe (“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp (“battle, contest, battlefield, open space”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“open field where military exercises are held...
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To behave in a camp manner.
Oster and his two co-stars, Jamie MacKenzie and Bill Martel, boogie and bop, sway and swish, camp and croon through tightly worked production numbers addressing a range of serious (and not so serious) issues that middle class, urban gay men come up against.
Intentionally tasteless or vulgar; self-parodying.
In Saturday Night Live, Madonna also unsurprisingly played Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and a Joan Collins clone, all in a very camp way. As John Dean writes: “U.S. rock has a ruling camp queen with Madonna.”