Thesaurus results for CAMPO

campo

noun

ˈkam-(ˌ)pō

Definition of campo next

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. —

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

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Noun

This transition from grassland prairie to mountains stretches from southeast to northwest Wyoming.

— Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2026
In addition to the tension with the Native Americans, the Ingalls face fever, wolves and a prairie fire to name a few events teased in the clip.

— Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 11 June 2026