camp – English noun declension

English noun forms of camp

Noun: camp
Singularcamp
Pluralcamps

Sample Sentences

  • Near-synonyms: campsite, campground, encampment
  • There's a big camp in the woods northwest of here. It's popular with hikers and bushcrafters.
  • I met my best friend last summer at camp. She lives in Albany and plays the clarinet.
  • He used to go to summer camp every alternate year.
  • I met my girlfriend last summer at camp. You wouldn't know her — she lives in Canada.
  • Near-synonym: encampment
  • Signs of enemy recon were found near their camp last week.
  • Near-synonyms: concentration camp, labor camp, reeducation camp, gulag, stalag, prison camp
  • Some say they'll round us all up into camps, but if they come for us, we'll take some out with us, on our way out.
  • Mr. Ahn Myong-Chol was a prison guard at Camp 22 in Hoeryong and a driver at the camps. He was there between 1990 and 1994. He is the one who reported that prisoners had been used for human experimentation inside the camps. [2013 June 18, Esther Felden, “Hell on earth”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2015:]
  • a hunter’s camp
  • The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight. [1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter IX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:]
  • Near-synonyms: faction, ingroup
  • She's in the camp that speaks as if all vaccines were poisons.
  • My Campe is like to Iulius Cæſars Hoſte,
  • That neuer fought but had the victorie: [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:]
  • ‘We must have sat down on a kangaroo camp when we boiled the billy at midday,’ I remarked irritably. Laurie laughed while I burned three kangaroo ticks from my legs. [1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 82:]
  • Lantana is a sweet camp. It's an old hospital that has been converted to a drug treatment center for prisoners. [2009, Nick Chandler, Jeanette Billings, Determined to Change: The Autobiography of Nick Chandler, page 184:]
  • Then the Rains came, when no one could go into camp, and the Narkarra Road was washed away by the Kasun River, and in the cup-like pastures of Kashima the cattle waded knee-deep. [1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 62:]
  • The house owner got panic after seeing the camp of bats. [2019 December 23, Speed News Nest, “It's weird! 1700 bats invade flat and make their love nest”, in Catch News, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2026:]
  • Her mouth opens so wide, a camp of bats could fly in. [2022, Lystra Rose, The Upwelling:]
  • The camp of bats then settled on the ceiling, hanging upside down with their beady eyes shining like stars in the torchlight. [2013, T.D. Pierce, Captain Wilder Part One, Friesen Press, page 44:]

Etymology

1. 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, level plain”), from Latin campus (“open field, level plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend; crooked”). Reinforced circa 1520 by Middle French can, camp (“place where an army lodges temporarily”), from Old Northern French camp, from the same Latin (whence also French champ from Old French). Cognate with Old High German champf (“battle, struggle”) (German Kampf), Old Norse kapp (“battle”), Old High German hamf (“paralysed, maimed, mutilated”). Doublet of campus and champ.
2. The verb is from Middle English campen, from Old English campian, compian (“to fight, war against”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampōn (“to fight, do battle”), from *kamp (“field, battlefield, battle”), see above. Cognate with Dutch kampen, German kämpfen (“to struggle”), Danish kæmpe, Swedish kämpa. See: Middle English Nouns 'kampe', Old English Nouns 'camp', Latin Nouns 'campus', French Nouns 'champ', German Nouns 'Kampf', Old English Nouns 'campian, compian', Danish Nouns 'kæmpe'.

Verbs referencing "camp"

Italian Nouns campo, Irish Nouns campa, Finnish Nouns kämppä, German Nouns Camp.