as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
vaqueros driving their herd of cattle across the campo
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Recent Examples of campo
First discovered: 3:41 p.m. Sep. 4 Initial location: San Diego County, Calif.
Fire type: Wildfire
Fire name: Mutual Aid/campo
A new wildfire was reported today at 3:41 p.m. in San Diego County, California.
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Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Indeed, Eugenio, whose large-scale figurative paintings have been exhibited across Europe, Latin America, and the US, exerts a fatherly influence across the campo.
—Alessandra Schade, Vogue, 7 June 2025
Since 2019, Javier Farfan has been the quarterback — or, el mariscal de campo — overseeing a massive push to highlight the league-wide spectrum of Latinidad.
—Alan Chazaro, NPR, 21 Dec. 2024
Some readers may note that three of the Marte daughters were born in the 1950s during the 30-year dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, yet there is no specific reference to his tyranny, his notorious preying on campo girls or the measures families took to protect them.
—Patricia Engel, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
The campo, which forms part of the 150,000-hectare Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park, is best accessed via cable car.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2023
The German synagogue was constructed by a group of Ashkenazi Jews with five large windows that overlook the ghetto’s central square, or campo.
—New York Times, 4 May 2022
Vasquez is the youngest artist in the show, and his paintings show the joy of lively gatherings in the campo (meaning rural areas or the countryside in Spanish-speaking countries and within the Latinx diaspora).
—CNN, 31 Aug. 2021
Like many Puerto Ricans born in the campo (boondocks) or born before the 1950s, birth dates and timelines are a blurred suggestion.
—Illyanna Maisonet, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2018
Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Indeed, Eugenio, whose large-scale figurative paintings have been exhibited across Europe, Latin America, and the US, exerts a fatherly influence across the campo.
—Alessandra Schade, Vogue, 7 June 2025
Since 2019, Javier Farfan has been the quarterback — or, el mariscal de campo — overseeing a massive push to highlight the league-wide spectrum of Latinidad.
—Alan Chazaro, NPR, 21 Dec. 2024
Some readers may note that three of the Marte daughters were born in the 1950s during the 30-year dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, yet there is no specific reference to his tyranny, his notorious preying on campo girls or the measures families took to protect them.
—Patricia Engel, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
The campo, which forms part of the 150,000-hectare Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park, is best accessed via cable car.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2023
The German synagogue was constructed by a group of Ashkenazi Jews with five large windows that overlook the ghetto’s central square, or campo.
—New York Times, 4 May 2022
Vasquez is the youngest artist in the show, and his paintings show the joy of lively gatherings in the campo (meaning rural areas or the countryside in Spanish-speaking countries and within the Latinx diaspora).
—CNN, 31 Aug. 2021
Like many Puerto Ricans born in the campo (boondocks) or born before the 1950s, birth dates and timelines are a blurred suggestion.
—Illyanna Maisonet, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for campo
Noun
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The Longview Steakhouse Located on the eastern edge of Kananaskis, where the mountains flatten out, this eponymous steakhouse is known as much for its long prairie views as its tender cuts of beef.—
Lisa Kadane,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Nov. 2025
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After the death of his addict father, Ethan heads back to see if there’s any money to be made from selling his home, intending to stay, only briefly, with his aunt Sarah, Metcalf’s character, a Brunhilde of the high prairie.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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In Mongolia’s eastern steppes, an initiative implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is helping farmers revive more than 11,000 hectares of cropland through no-till farming and intercropping—restoring productivity while protecting ecosystems.—
Kaveh Zahedi,
Time,
3 Nov. 2025
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The mighty Sino-Spanish Empire balloons to rule much of Asia, and then expands westward, across the Central Asian steppes.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Oct. 2025
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In addition to being constructed in a zone vulnerable to a major earthquake, the hospital sits in a low-lying plain just blocks from the waterfront, on unstable ground.—
Katia Riddle,
NPR,
5 Nov. 2025
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They could be spread across the Central Valley, coastal plains and the desert—areas with ample space and potential.—
Zoltan Istvan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Some invasive ornamental grasses include pampas grass, Mexican feather grass, and fountaingrass.—
Miranda Crowell,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Aug. 2025
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia CNN — Grasslands — also known as prairies, steppes, pampas or savannas — are home to 25% of the world’s population and all kinds of plants and wildlife, including elephants, rhinos and lions.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN,
6 Dec. 2024
Noun
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According to the zoo, patas monkeys are charismatic and can travel up to 34 miles per hour across their natural habitat, the arid grasslands of Africa.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
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The Pennine mountains were formed, across which forests and grassland, aurochs and wolves, Neanderthals, Normans, glampers and ramblers could come and go.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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The once-damp rainforest canopy could shift to a dry savanna for at least several centuries.—
Alexandra A Phillips,
The Conversation,
13 Oct. 2025
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The species was thought to be restricted to the Amazon Rainforest and the regions that border the forest before the Cerrado, or savanna, begins, according to the study.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Campo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campo. Accessed 25 Nov. 2025.
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