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Camp vs. Encampment — What's the Difference?

Camp vs. Encampment — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Camp and Encampment

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Camp

A place where tents, huts, or other temporary shelters are set up, as by soldiers, nomads, or travelers.

Encampment

The act of encamping.

Camp

A cabin or shelter or group of such buildings
Gathered branches and grasses for a makeshift camp.
Had a fishing camp in Vermont.

Encampment

The state of being encamped.

Camp

The people using such shelters
A howl that awakened the whole camp.
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Encampment

A camp; a campsite.

Camp

A place, often in the country, that offers simple group accommodations and organized recreation or instruction, as for vacationing children
A girls' summer camp.
A tennis camp.

Encampment

A campsite.

Camp

(Sports) A place where athletes engage in intensive training, especially preseason training.

Encampment

A group of temporary living quarters and/or other temporary structures.

Camp

The people attending the programs at such a place.

Encampment

The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.

Camp

A program offering group instruction or recreation without overnight facilities.

Encampment

The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.
A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans.
A green encampment yonder meets the eye.

Camp

A prison camp or concentration camp.

Encampment

A site where people on holiday can pitch a tent

Camp

Military service; army life.

Encampment

Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers;
Wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling

Camp

A group of people who think alike or share a cause; side
The council members disagreed, falling into liberal and conservative camps.

Encampment

The act of encamping and living in tents in a camp

Camp

Deliberate affectation or exaggeration of style, especially of popular or outdated style, for ironic or humorous effect
"Camp is popularity plus vulgarity plus innocence" (Indra Jahalani).

Camp

To make or set up a camp.

Camp

To live in or as if in a camp; settle
We camped in the apartment until the furniture arrived.

Camp

To shelter or lodge in a camp; encamp
They camped themselves by a river.

Camp

To act in a histrionic or exaggerated manner.

Camp

To act in an exaggerated, effeminate manner.

Camp

To exaggerate or overdramatize
Camped up the characters in the play.

Camp

Showing or characterized by camp
Played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect.

Camp

Given to or characterized by exaggerated, effeminate mannerisms.

Camp

An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.

Camp

An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.

Camp

A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.

Camp

A single hut or shelter.
A hunter's camp

Camp

The company or body of persons encamped.

Camp

A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.

Camp

(obsolete) An army.

Camp

(uncommon) Campus

Camp

(informal) A summer camp.

Camp

(prison slang) A prison.

Camp

(agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost

Camp

(obsolete) Conflict; battle.

Camp

An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.

Camp

The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.

Camp

An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that composes of all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.

Camp

To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.

Camp

To set up a camp.

Camp

(transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.

Camp

To stay in an advantageous location.
Some players like to camp next to a power-up's spawning point.

Camp

To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.
Go and camp the flag for the win.

Camp

To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.

Camp

To wrangle; argue.

Camp

Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.

Camp

Ostentatiously effeminate.

Camp

Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.

Camp

The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.

Camp

A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.
Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston.

Camp

A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.

Camp

The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.
The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.

Camp

A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; - called also burrow and pie.

Camp

An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.

Camp

To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.
Had our great palace the capacityTo camp this host, we all would sup together.

Camp

To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; - often with out.
They camped out at night, under the stars.

Camp

To play the game called camp.

Camp

Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers;
Wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling

Camp

A group of people living together in a camp;
The whole camp laughed at his mistake

Camp

Temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers;
Level ground is best for parking and camp areas

Camp

An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

Camp

A prison for forced laborers;
China has many work camps for political prisoners

Camp

Something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality;
The livingroom was pure camp

Camp

Shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs

Camp

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

Camp

Live in or as if in a tent;
Can we go camping again this summer?
The circus tented near the town
The houseguests had to camp in the living room

Camp

Establish or set up a camp

Camp

Give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

Camp

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

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