What is the meaning of camp?

noun

• Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers.
  • usage: "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
  • synonyms: encampment, cantonment, bivouac
• A group of people living together in a camp.
  • usage: "the whole camp laughed at his mistake"
• Temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers.
  • usage: "level ground is best for parking and camp areas"
• An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose.
  • synonyms: clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack
• A penal institution (often for forced labor. )
  • usage: "China has many camps for political prisoners"
• Something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality.
  • usage: "the living room was pure camp"
• Shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs.
  • synonyms: refugee camp
• A site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months.
  • usage: "city kids get to see the country at a summer camp"
  • synonyms: summer camp

verb

• Live in or as if in a tent.
  • usage: "Can we go camping again this summer"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"
  • synonyms: encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent
• Establish or set up a camp.
  • synonyms: camp down
• Give an artificially banal or sexual quality to.

adjective

• Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
  • usage: "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"
  • synonyms: campy