noun

1. 1. a place where tents, huts, barracks, or other more or less temporary structures have been put up, as for soldiers in training or in bivouac
   2. military life
2. 1. a group of people who support or advance a common opinion, cause, etc.
   2. the position taken by such a group
3. a tent, cabin, etc., or a group of these, used for temporary lodging, as by hunters or fishermen
4. a place in the country for vacationers, esp. children, with outdoor recreation, often organized and supervised
5. the people living in a camp
6. ☆

   Etymology: orig., homosexual jargon

   Slang
   1. banality, mediocrity, artifice, ostentation, etc. so extreme as to amuse or have a perversely sophisticated appeal
   2. exaggerated effeminate mannerisms, usually affected for amusement

Etymology: Fr < OProv < L campus, a field: see campus

adjective

intransitive verb

1. to set up a camp; encamp
2. to live or stay in or as if in a camp: often with out

transitive verb

1. to put into a camp
2. to provide with accommodations