Noun: campaign
| Singular | campaign |
| Plural | campaigns |
Sample Sentences
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an election campaign
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a military campaign
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The company is targeting children in its latest advertising campaign.
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He was given three days to campaign for the post of president in his school.
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MILLER: Mr. President, I wonder if you could tell us about some of the audiences you talked to in the 1948 campaign? For instance, I think we'd all be curious about what was the smallest audience you had in the 1948 campaign?
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TRUMAN: Well, I'll- it'll sound as if I'm bragging about the 1948 campaign, but I never had an audience under five or ten thousand people in the whole series of trips which we took- about 31,700 miles on the train. [1965, Harry S. Truman, Merle Miller, 0:12 from the start, in MP2002-300 Former President Truman Discusses 1948 Campaign and Other Presidents in History, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:]
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The Canaries went ahead when the home defence failed to clear their lines and Pilkington was on hand to slide in his eighth goal of the campaign. [2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2021:]
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Looking at hundreds of campaigns over the last century, Chenoweth found that nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent campaigns. […] A campaign was considered violent, meanwhile, if it involved bombings, kidnappings, the destruction of infrastructure – or any other physical harm to people or property. [2019 May 13, David Robson, “The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world”, in BBC, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2025:]
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His campaign for Hampshire was very good.
Nouns inflected like campaign
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campania, campagna, and champagne. See: French Nouns '
campagne', Italian Nouns '
campagna', Latin Nouns '
campus'.
Verbs referencing "campaign"
Polish Nouns
kampania.