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{
"term": "camp",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a place where people live temporarily in tents or temporary buildings",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Let's return to camp."
},
{
"text": "to pitch/set up camp *(= put up tents)*"
},
{
"text": "to break/strike camp *(= take down tents)*"
},
{
"text": "We broke camp early the next morning."
},
{
"text": "We pitched camp just outside the woods."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["makeshift", "temporary", "day"],
"verb + camp": ["establish", "make", "pitch"],
"camp + verb": ["be located"],
"camp + noun": ["fire", "site"],
"preposition": ["at (a/the) camp"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a place where children go in the summer and take part in sports and other activities",
"sensetop": "at camp",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a tennis/soccer camp"
},
{
"text": "I used to attend a summer music camp for five weeks."
},
{
"text": "He spent two weeks at camp this summer.",
"contextForm": "at camp"
},
{
"text": "a **camp counsellor** *(= somebody who works with young people at a summer camp)*"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["makeshift", "temporary", "day"],
"verb + camp": ["establish", "make", "pitch"],
"camp + verb": ["be located"],
"camp + noun": ["fire", "site"],
"preposition": ["at (a/the) camp"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a place where people are kept in temporary buildings or tents, especially by a government and often for long periods",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "They criticized the appalling conditions in the **refugee camps**."
},
{
"text": "a detention/an internment camp"
},
{
"text": "They were repeatedly beaten by camp guards."
}
],
"topics": ["Social issues"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["concentration", "detention", "internment"],
"verb + camp": ["be sent to", "enter", "liberate"],
"camp + noun": ["inmate", "guard", "survivor"],
"preposition": ["in a/the camp"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a place where soldiers live while they are training or fighting",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "an army camp"
}
],
"topics": ["War and conflict"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["makeshift", "temporary", "day"],
"verb + camp": ["establish", "make", "pitch"],
"camp + verb": ["be located"],
"camp + noun": ["fire", "site"],
"preposition": ["at (a/the) camp"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "a group of people who have the same ideas about something and oppose people with other ideas",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the socialist camp"
},
{
"text": "We were in opposing camps."
},
{
"text": "The region split into two armed camps."
},
{
"text": "People are split into two camps on this issue."
},
{
"text": "He was a politician who switched camps when it suited him."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["hostile", "opposing", "rival"],
"verb + camp": ["divide into", "split into"],
"preposition": ["in a/the camp"],
"phrases": ["have a foot in both camps"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "one of the sides in a competition and the people connected with it",
"examples": [
{
"text": "There was an air of confidence in the England camp."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["hostile", "opposing", "rival"],
"verb + camp": ["divide into", "split into"],
"preposition": ["in a/the camp"],
"phrases": ["have a foot in both camps"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be involved in or connected with two different groups, especially ones that oppose each other",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kæmp/",
"audio": "ca/camp/camp__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kæmp/",
"audio": "ca/camp/camp_1_us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "noun early 16th cent.: from French camp, champ, from Italian campo, from Latin campus ‘level ground’, specifically applied to the Campus Martius in Rome, used for games, athletic practice, and military drill."
}