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Deliberate affectation or exaggeration of style, especially of popular or outdated style, for ironic or humorous effect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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