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# camp

«camp» in Mova's school dictionary: **a place where people stay in tents or cabins, often outdoors** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (camp, camps); verb (camp, camps, camped, camping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A camp is a place where people stay in tents or cabins, often outdoors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camp/#m1)

2) A summer camp is a place where children go in the holidays to do activities. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camp/#m2)

3) To camp is to stay outdoors in a tent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camp/#m3)

4) A camp can be a group of people who share an idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camp/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

a place in the story; children, tents, days and costs counted; phrases «summer camp», «set up camp», «base camp», «camp out», «campfire»

### examples

- 60 children go to summer camp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camp/#x1)
- Each tent at camp holds 4. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camp/#x2)
- Camp costs 200 dollars a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camp/#x3)
- They camp for 5 nights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camp/#x4)
- We set up camp by the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camp/#x5)
- Climbers rest at base camp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camp/#x6)
- We camped out in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camp/#x7)
- At camp we learned to canoe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camp/#x8)
- We sang songs around the campfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camp/#x9)
- Never leave a campfire burning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camp/#x10)
- I say, John, I see the smoke of the redskin camp!” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camp/#x11)

### note

No clue by itself; look for per tent or per week rates. Trap: 5 nights of camping can mean 6 days. Tents needed = children ÷ per tent, rounded up.

### In the corpora

- [Some words hide terrible things: governments have called prison camps "vocational training centres".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/3/)
- ["Re-education" means forced political indoctrination: people are made to repeat and accept the government's ideas, often in camps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/20/)
- [Example: a family in British Columbia camps in bear country.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/230-hiking-and-camping/5/)
- [In bear country, store food in bear-proof containers and keep a clean camp, because bears follow food smells.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/230-hiking-and-camping/18/)
- [At football camp Connor is paired with Mateo, who only speaks Spanish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/27/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «camp» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camp/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.