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# camper

«camper» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who stays at a camp, often in a tent, or goes…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (camper, campers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A camper is a person who stays at a camp, often in a tent, or goes camping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camper/#m1)

2) A camper is also a van with beds and a small kitchen, used for holidays (a camper van, an RV). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camper/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

people counted at a camp, often split by time (morning and afternoon) or activity (rowing, hiking); summer camp is a holiday for children in the USA and Canada; phrases: «summer camper», «camper van», «happy campers» (people who are pleased)

### examples

- There were 35 campers rowing in the morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camper/#x1)
- 27 campers went rowing in the afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camper/#x2)
- How many campers went rowing in all? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camper/#x3)
- How many more campers went hiking than rowing? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camper/#x4)
- Each tent sleeps 4 campers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camper/#x5)
- The campers sang songs around the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camper/#x6)
- We drove around New Zealand in a camper van. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camper/#x7)
- Campers must put out their fires before bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camper/#x8)

### note

A thing counted. Groups at different times are often added. Trap: a question about one activity ignores the other activity's numbers. Trap: the same camper may do two activities, so be careful when the question asks «how many different campers».

### In the corpora

- [A camper in Australia poured petrol on a slow campfire; the flames burst up into his face and he was badly burned.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/231-campfires-and-rivers/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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