Camp

Noun

 * 1) An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
 * 2) An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
 * 3) A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
 * 4) A group of people with the same ideals or political leanings, strongly supported.
 * 5) An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
 * 6)  campus
 * 7)  A summer camp.

Adjective

 * 1) Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
 * 2)  Ostentatiously effeminate.
 * 3) Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.

Verb

 * 1) To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
 * 2) To set up a camp.
 * 3)  To stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning point or in order to guard an area.

Adjectives for Camp
hostile: dismantled: horrible; concentration; deserted; aboriginal; circumvallating; permanent; temporary; picturesque; fortified; turbulent; peaceful; comfortable; armed; spacious;  attractive;  modest;  thriving; selected; opposite; lawless; antagonistic; divided; nightly; luxurious; chaotic.

Verbs for Camp
arouse—; beleaguer—; besiege—; command—; concentrate—; conduct—; conduct to—; divide into —s; escort to—; pitch—; proclaim—; put out of—; quarter at—; split into —s; strike—; —busies; —buzzes ; — hums; —rises; —swarms.

Adverbs for Camp
ostentatiously; conveniently; permanently; temporarily; turbulently; lawlessly; nightly; luxuriously; strategically.

Derived terms

 * camper
 * campness
 * campfire
 * camp site, campsite
 * campground
 * campestral
 * fat camp
 * spawn camping
 * summer camp

Related terms

 * campus

Thesaurus
park, party, party in power, people, perch, philistinism, pitch, pitch camp, political machine, political party, poor taste, pop, pop culture, populate, posture, prance, pressure group, raw comedy, realistic comedy, relocate, reside, ring, romantic comedy, roost, rough it, satyr play, sect, sentimental comedy, set, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, settlement, shack, shanty, show off, showy, side, silent majority, sit down, situation comedy, slapstick, slapstick comedy, sleep out, splinter, splinter group, splinter party, squat, stand, stay at, strike root, strut, take residence at, take root, take up residence, tastelessness, tent, tented field, tenting, theatrical, third party, tragicomedy, tragicomic, two-party system, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, vocal minority, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness, wing, affected, anchor, arlequinade, artificial, artless, bad taste, barrack, barracks, billet at, bivouac, bivouacking, black comedy, body, bourgeois taste, box, breakaway group, broad comedy, burlesque, burletta, burrow, cabal, cabin, caboose, camarilla, camp out, campground, campiness, camping, campsite, campy, cantonment, casern, caucus, circle, city hall, clan, clique, colonize, come to anchor, comedie bouffe, comedie larmoyante, comedie rosse, comedietta, comedy, comedy ballet, comedy of humors, comedy of ideas, comedy of intrigue, comedy of manners, comedy of situation, comedy relief, comic, comic muse, comic opera, comic relief, concentration camp, cot, coterie, cottage, crash, dark comedy, detention camp, division, domestic comedy, domesticate, drive stakes, drop anchor, effeminate, encamp, encampment, ensconce, establish residence, ethnic group, exaggerate, exaggerated, exode, extravagant, faction, farce, farce comedy, farcical, flamboyant, flaunt, flounce, genteel comedy, go camping, group, ham, harlequinade, high camp, hive, hobo jungle, hut, impropriety, inappropriateness, inartistic, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, ingroup, inhabit, interest, interest group, keep house, kitsch, light, light comedy, lines, live at, locate, lodge, low camp, low comedy, machine, major party, mannered, maroon, mime, minor party, minority group, mob, moor, move, multiple party system, musical, musical comedy, nest, offshoot, one-party system, opera buffa, opposition party, ostentatious, outrageous, outre,

Etymology
From camp:, from  camp:, from, from  campus:, from. Reinforced circa 1520 by can:, camp:, from  camp:, from the same  source. Cognate with champf:,  kapp:,  hamf:.