camp


Meanings

  • temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers;
    • "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
  • a group of people living together in a camp;
    • "the whole camp laughed at his mistake"
  • temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers;
    • "level ground is best for parking and camp areas"
  • an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
  • a penal institution (often for forced labor);
    • "China has many camps for political prisoners"
  • something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality;
    • "the living room was pure camp"
  • shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
  • 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"
  • live in or as if in a tent;
    • "Can we go camping again this summer?"
    • "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"
  • establish or set up a camp
  • give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
  • providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities;
    • "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"
    • "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"
  • CAMP v -ED, -ING, -S to live in the open


Scrabble Score: 10

camp is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

camp is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

camp is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary


Words With Friends Score: 13

camp is a valid Words With Friends word