Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To set up camp or live in a camp.
  • intransitive verb To provide quarters for in a camp.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To go into camp; form and occupy a camp; settle in temporary quarters, formed by tents or huts, as an army or a company.
  • To form into or fix in a camp; place in temporary quarters.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters.
  • intransitive verb To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb live in or as if in a tent

Etymologies

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en- +‎ camp

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