Synonyms of the word

camp

• n. (archaic) Conflict; battle.
• n. An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
• n. An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
• n. A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
• n. A single hut or shelter.
• n. The company or body of persons encamped.
• n. A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
• n. (uncommon) Campus.
• n. (informal) A summer camp.
• n. (agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against…
• n. (Britain, obsolete) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive…
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To wrangle; argue.
• v. To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
• v. To set up a camp.
• v. (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
• v. (video games) To stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning…
• n. An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
• adj. Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
• adj. (of a man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
• adj. Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

assemblage

• n. The process of assembling or bringing together.
• n. A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
• n. (art) A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often…

band

• n. A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
• n. (architecture) A strip of decoration.
• n. That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
• n. A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
• n. (in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic…
• n. (physics) A part of the radio spectrum.
• n. (physics) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
• n. (obsolete) A bond.
• n. (obsolete) Pledge; security.
• n. (especially US) A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify…
• n. (sciences) Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc.
• n. (slang, hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $10K, held together by a band; (by extension)…
• v. (transitive) To fasten with a band.
• v. (transitive, ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
• n. A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
• n. A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
• n. A marching band.
• n. A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).
• n. (anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society.
• n. (Canada) A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government…
• v. (intransitive) To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.

bivouac

• n. An encampment for the night, usually without tents or covering.
• n. Any temporary encampment.
• n. A temporary shelter constructed generally for a few nights.
• n. (dated) The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.
• v. To set up camp.
• v. To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army.
• v. To encamp for the night without tents or covering.

campy

• adj. Characterized by camp or kitsch, especially when deliberate or intentional.

cantonment

• n. Temporary military living quarters.
• n. A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters.
• n. (India) A permanent military station.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

circle

• n. (geometry) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a…
• n. A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a…
• n. Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.
• n. A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
• n. Orbit.
• n. A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
• n. (cricket) A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight…
• n. (Wicca) A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the…
• n. (South Africa) A traffic circle or roundabout.
• n. (obsolete) Compass; circuit; enclosure.
• n. (astronomy) An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed…
• n. A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
• n. (logic) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive…
• n. Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
• n. A territorial division or district.
• n. (in the plural) A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.
• v. (transitive) To travel around along a curved path.
• v. (transitive) To surround.
• v. (transitive) To place or mark a circle around.
• v. (intransitive) To travel in circles.

clique

• n. A small, exclusive group of individuals; cabal.
• n. (graph theory) A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.
• n. (Internet) A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership…
• v. To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot.

coterie

• n. A circle of people who associate with one another.
• n. An exclusive group of people, who associate closely for a common purpose; a clique.
• n. A communal burrow of prairie dogs.

dwell

• n. (engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
• n. (engineering) A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
• n. (electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.
• n. (automotive) In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow…
• v. (intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
• v. (intransitive) To linger (on) a particular thought, idea etc.; to remain fixated (on).
• v. (intransitive, engineering) To be in a given state.
• v. (intransitive) To abide; to remain; to continue.

encamp

• v. To build and/or inhabit a camp or temporary shelter.

encampment

• n. A campsite.
• n. A group of temporary living quarters and/or other temporary structures.

gathering

• n. A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
• n. A group of people or things.
• n. (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
• n. A charitable contribution; a collection.
• n. (medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
• v. present participle of gather.

housing

• v. present participle of house.
• n. (uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
• n. (uncountable) Residences, collectively.
• n. (countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.
• n. A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse…
• n. An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
• n. (architecture) The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the…
• n. A niche for a statue.
• n. (nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
• n. (nautical) A houseline.

ingroup

• n. (sociology) The social group that one belongs to.
• n. (systematics) In cladistics, the monophyletic group that includes all taxa of interest to the current…

inhabit

• v. (transitive) To live or reside in.
• v. (transitive) To be present in; to occupy.

live

• v. (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
• v. (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
• v. (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
• v. (intransitive, hyperbolic) To cope.
• v. (intransitive) To pass life in a specified manner.
• v. (transitive) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
• v. (transitive) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
• v. (intransitive) To outlast danger; to float (said of a ship, boat, etc).
• v. (intransitive, followed by "on" or "upon") To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself;…
• v. (intransitive, informal) To make the most of life; to experience a full rich life.
• adj. (only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.
• adj. Being in existence; actual.
• adj. Having active properties; being energized.
• adj. Operational; being in actual use rather than in testing.
• adj. (engineering) Imparting power; having motion.
• adj. (sports) Still in active play.
• adj. (broadcasting) Seen or heard from a broadcast, as it happens.
• adj. Of a performance or speech, in person.
• adj. Of a recorded performance, made in front of an audience, or not having been edited after recording.
• adj. Of firearms or explosives, capable of causing harm.
• adj. (circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution…
• adj. (poker) Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.
• adj. Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
• adj. Being in a state of ignition; burning.
• adj. (obsolete) Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing.
• adj. (obsolete) Vivid; bright.
• adv. Of an event, as it happens; in real time; direct.
• adv. Of making a performance or speech, in person.

lodging

• n. A place to live or lodge.
• n. Sleeping accommodation.
• n. (in the plural) Furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation.
• n. (agriculture) The condition of a plant, especially a cereal, that has been flattened in the field or damaged…
• v. present participle of lodge.

lot

• n. A large quantity or number; a great deal.
• n. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
• n. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
• n. (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
• n. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
• n. That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
• n. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without…
• n. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
• n. A prize in a lottery.
• n. Allotment; lottery.
• n. (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.
• n. An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32…
• v. (transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
• v. (US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon).

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

pack

• n. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for…
• n. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack.
• n. a multitude.
• n. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
• n. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game.
• n. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
• n. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
• n. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
• n. A group of Cub Scouts.
• n. A shook of cask staves.
• n. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
• n. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
• n. (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack,…
• n. (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
• n. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
• n. (rugby) The team on the field.
• v. (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
• v. (social) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
• v. (transitive) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
• v. To move, send or carry.
• v. (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
• v. (intransitive, LGBT slang, of a drag king, transman, etc.) To wear a simulated penis or other manbulge-causing…

pitch

• n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
• n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
• n. (geology) Pitchstone.
• v. To cover or smear with pitch.
• v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
• n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
• n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
• n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
• n. An effort to sell or promote something.
• n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
• n. The angle at which an object sits.
• n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
• n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
• n. The place where a busker performs.
• n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
• n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
• n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
• n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
• n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
• n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
• n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
• n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
• n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
• v. (transitive) To throw.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
• v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
• v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
• v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
• v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
• v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
• v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
• v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
• v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
• v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
• v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
• v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
• v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
• n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
• n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
• v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
• v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

prison

• n. A place or institution of confinement, especially of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious…
• n. (uncountable) Confinement in prison.
• n. (colloquial) Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.
• v. (transitive) To imprison.

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

shelter

• n. A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
• n. An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.
• v. (transitive) To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
• v. (intransitive) To take cover.

site

• n. (obsolete) Sorrow, grief.
• n. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position.
• n. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation.
• n. The posture or position of a thing.
• n. A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
• n. A website.
• n. (category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
• n. Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
• n. A part of the body which has been operated on.
• v. (architecture) To situate or place a building.

staleness

• n. (uncountable) The state or quality of being stale.
• n. (countable) The result or product of being stale.

tasteless

• adj. Having no flavour; bland, insipid.
• adj. Lacking delicacy, refinement and good taste; unbecoming, crass.

tent

• n. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained…
• n. (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
• n. (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
• n. Short for trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent; (see manbulge).
• v. (intransitive) To go camping.
• v. (cooking) To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce…
• v. (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.
• v. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
• n. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.
• n. (archaic) Intention; design.
• n. (medicine) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used…
• n. (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
• v. (medicine, sometimes figuratively) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
• n. (archaic) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent…

triteness

• n. (uncountable) The state or quality of being trite.
• n. (countable) The result or product of being trite.