Synonyms for camp
- noun
- verb
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Prison camp — A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and…
prison camp, concentration camp, gulag, labor camp, re-education camp, stalag
2. Encampment
3. Clique
clique, pack, pac US, coterie, inner circle
Other
campground, refugee camp, shack, kitsch, summer camp informal rare, campiness rare, castrametation rare, campness rare
Verb
Definitions
- n. 1
A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.
Near-synonyms: concentration camp, labor camp, reeducation camp, gulag, stalag, prison camp
- n. 2
A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
Near-synonyms: faction, ingroup
- n. 3
An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
Near-synonyms: campsite, campground, encampment
- v. 1
To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.
Related words
- Word family
- camper campestral campground campish campness campy
- Phrases
- prison camp camp it up camp out break camp camp robber camp shirt camp stove concentration camp
- Other spellings
- clamp
Example sentences
- gulag Tom managed to escape from a gulag in Siberia.
- encampment I'm bringing water to the homeless encampment.
- bivouac We'll bivouac near the lake.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| camp | rising | |
| gulag | rising | |
| encampment | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- pac1
- 4 letters
- pack1, fort1, tent1
- 5 letters
- shack1, gulag2
- 6 letters
- clinch1, clique1, fasten2, kitsch1, stalag2, encamp2
- 7 letters
- faction2, coterie3, bivouac2
- 8 letters
- campness
- 9 letters
- campiness
- 10 letters
- encampment3, campground2, cantonment
- 14 letters
- castrametation
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gulag2 = 2 syllables).