Related terms

• camper
• campness
• campfire
• camp site, campsite
• campground
• campestral

Old English

Etymology

Latin campus

Noun

camp or

1. combat

Noun

camp

1. an enclosed piece of land

Camp may refer to:

Outdoor accommodation and recreation

• Campsite or campground, a recreational outdoor sleeping and eating site
• Resources camp erected for logging, fishing, mining, etc.
• Summer camp, typically organized for groups of children or youth
• A term used in New England, Northern Ontario and New Brunswick to describe a cottage

Gatherings of people

• Camp meeting, a Christian gathering which originated in 19th century America.
• Refugee camp, a temporary encampment for displaced people
• Temporary settlement of a band of hunter-gatherer peoples

Areas of imprisonment or confinement

• Concentration camp
• Death camp
• Labor camp
• Prisoner of war camp
• Relocation camp

Geographical locations

• Camp (Falkland Islands), a term used in the Falkland Islands to refer to any part of the islands outside of the islands' only significant town, Stanley.
• Câmp, Romania, a town
• A village on the Dingle Peninsula, in the Republic of Ireland

Entertainment

• Camp (film), a 2003 independent film, written and directed by Todd Graff, about an upstate New York performing arts summer camp
• Camp Records, a 1960s record label that specialized in producing gay-themed novelty records and singles

Military

• Cantonment
• Military camp

Other uses

• Camp (style), an ironic appreciation of that which might otherwise be considered outlandish or corny
• cAMP, Cyclic adenosine monophosphate

See also

• Camp (surname)
• CAMP, the acronym
• CAMPS, missile defense system for civilian aircraft
• Camper
• Camping (disambiguation)
• Campus
• BarCamp, a sleep-over unconference
• FooCamp, an invite-only unconference
• Kemp

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