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Camp can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
camp used as an adjective:
- Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
- Ostentatiously effeminate.
- Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
camp used as a noun:
- An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
- An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
- A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
- A group of people with the same ideals or political leanings, strongly supported.
- An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
- A summer camp.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
camp used as a verb:
- To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
"We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday." - To set up a camp.
- To stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning point or to guard an area.
"The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage." - To behave in a camp manner.
"Don't camp up your performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night this time." - To troll for sexual partners.
"Looks like he's going to camp for some hot bois tonight." - To chat up a guy in the hopes of getting him into bed.
"You should camp that cute guy."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is camp?
- Verb usage: We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.
- Verb usage: The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.
- Verb usage: Go and camp the flag for the win.
- Verb usage: Don't camp up your performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night this time.
- Verb usage: Looks like he's going to camp for some hot bois tonight.
- Verb usage: You should camp that cute guy.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of camp are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of camp, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).