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  • 21camp — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. encampment, bivouac, cantonment; group, clique. See abode, party. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. campy*, mannered, theatrical, stylized, posturing, artificial, exaggerated, extravagant, corny, banal,… …

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  • 22camp — I UK [kæmp] / US noun Word forms camp : singular camp plural camps *** 1) [countable/uncountable] a place with tents or other shelters where people go for a holiday The kids were sent away to camp every summer. She s spending two weeks at a music …

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  • 23camp — 1 noun 1 (C, U) a place where people stay in temporary shelters, such as tents, usually for a short time: Let s go back to the camp it s getting dark. | break camp (=take down a tent or shelter you have been using) 2 prison/labour etc camp a… …

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  • 24camp — Synonyms and related words: American Party, Anti Monopoly Party, Babbittry, Bull Moose Party, Communist Party, Conservative Party, Constitutional Union Party, Democratic Party, Democratic Republican Party, Farmer Labor Party, Federalist Party,… …

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  • 25camp — I. /kæmp / (say kamp) noun 1. a group of tents, caravans, or other temporary shelters in one place: *Most of the Kurds passed the Allied run refugee camp of 1200 tents just outside Zakho, deciding instead to return home –herald sun, 1991. 2. the… …

  • 26camp*/*/ — [kæmp] noun I 1) [C] a place where soldiers or prisoners live during a war 2) [C/U] a place where people go for a holiday that often has tents or other temporary shelters music camp[/ex] scout camp[/ex] 3) [C] a group of people who support a… …

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  • 27Camp Massad (Manitoba) — Camp Massad (Machaneh Massad/מחנה מסד in Hebrew) is a Hebrew speaking Jewish and Zionist summer camp for campers aged 7 to 16 located at Winnipeg Beach in Manitoba, Canada. The camp was founded in 1953. Leona Billinkoff ( Gveret B ) was the first …

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  • 28Camp Gurs — was an internment and refugee camp constructed by the French government in 1939. The camp was originally set up in southwestern France after the fall of Catalonia at the end of the Spanish Civil War to control those who fled Spain out of fear of… …

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  • 29Camp Archbald — is a Girl Scout camp in Brooklyn Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses convert|288|acre|km2, including a 45 acre lake (Lake Ely). Established in 1920, it is the second oldest continuously operating Girl Scout Camp in America …

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  • 30Camp (style) — Camp is an aesthetic in which something has appeal because of its bad taste or ironic value. When the term first appeared in 1909, it was used to refer to ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical, effeminate or homosexual behaviour. By the …

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