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Adjective camp has 1 sense

camp, campy - 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"
Antonyms: tasteful, in good taste (indirect, via tasteless)

Noun camp has 8 senses

camp, encampment, cantonment, bivouac - temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
--₁ is a kind of military quarters
--₁ has particulars: boot camp; hutment; laager, lager
Derived form: verb camp₁
camp - a group of people living together in a camp; "the whole camp laughed at his mistake"
--₂ is a kind of gathering, assemblage
--₂ has particulars: hobo camp, jungle
camp - temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers; "level ground is best for parking and camp areas"
--₃ is a kind of housing, lodging, living accommodations
--₃ has particulars: tennis camp; trailer camp, trailer park
Derived form: verb camp₁
clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, camp - an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
--₄ is a kind of set, circle, band, lot
--₄ has particulars:
Bloomsbury Group; kitchen cabinet; loop; cabal, faction, junto, camarilla; military junta, junta; mafia, maffia; faction, sect; galere, rogue's gallery; hard core
camp - a prison for forced laborers; "China has many work camps for political prisoners"
--₅ is a kind of prison, prison house
--₅ has particulars:
prison camp, internment camp, prisoner of war camp, POW camp; work camp, prison camp, prison farm
camp - something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality; "the livingroom was pure camp"
--₆ is a kind of triteness, staleness

Derived form: verb camp₃
camp, refugee camp - shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
--₇ is a kind of shelter
camp, summer 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"
--₈ is a kind of site, land site
--₈ has particulars: day camp

Verb camp has 3 senses

camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent - 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"
--₁ is one way to dwell, shack, reside, live, inhabit, people, populate, domicile, domiciliate

Derived forms: noun camp₃, noun camp₁, noun camper₁, noun camping₁
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s PP
camp, camp down - establish or set up a camp
--₂ is one way to pitch, set up
Sample sentence:
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camp - give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
--₃ is one way to change, alter, modify

Derived form: noun camp₆
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something