CAMP


Meaning of CAMP in English

I.

noun

1 in tents/huts

ADJECTIVE

▪ makeshift , temporary

▪ day ( AmE ), holiday ( BrE ), sleepaway ( AmE ), summer

▪ basketball , football , music , etc. (all esp. AmE )

The kids were at basketball ~ most of the summer.

▪ scout

▪ base

The mountaineers set up their base ~ at the foot of the mountain.

▪ Gypsy , travellers' ( BrE )

▪ army , boot , military

▪ training

▪ rebel , terrorist

▪ fishing , hunting (both esp. AmE )

▪ mining

VERB + CAMP

▪ establish , make , pitch , set up

They established a base ~ by the river.

We pitched ~ just outside the woods.

▪ be located

▪ break , strike

We broke ~ early the next morning.

▪ leave

▪ attend , go to

There are opportunities for children to attend summer ~s.

▪ attack , destroy , raid

Militants raided an army ~.

CAMP + NOUN

▪ fire (usually campfire )

We sat around the campfire.

▪ site (usually campsite )

PREPOSITION

▪ at (a/the) ~

The children are spending a week at a summer ~.

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 ~s

VERB + CAMP

▪ be sent to

▪ enter

▪ liberate

CAMP + NOUN

▪ inmate

▪ guard

▪ survivor

concentration ~ survivors

PREPOSITION

▪ in a/the ~

She spent five years in a prison ~.

3 group with shared beliefs

ADJECTIVE

▪ hostile , opposing , rival ( esp. BrE ), warring

▪ ideological , political

▪ armed

The region split into two armed ~s.

VERB + CAMP

▪ divide into , split into

PREPOSITION

▪ in a/the ~

people in both main political ~s

PHRASES

▪ have a foot in both ~s (= show loyalty to two different groups)

He can unite the party because he has a foot in both ~s.

II.

verb

Camp is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ army

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .