{
    "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."
}