CAMPS Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

camps 1 of 2

noun

plural of camp

as in campgrounds

a place where a group of people live for a short time in tents or cabins the war forced people to flee their homes and to live in crowded camps along the border

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as in huts

a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling a hunter's camp deep in the woods

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as in cottages

an often small house for recreational or seasonal use years ago the wealthy industrialists built some rather grand camps along the lake

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camps

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verb

present tense third-person singular of camp

as in houses

to provide with living quarters or shelter some out-of-town delegates to the convention were camped in university dorms

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Recent Examples of camps

Noun

Clark was scheduled to start his annual tour of spring training camps on Tuesday. —

Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 19 Feb. 2026 Many of the children have grown up in camps after ISIS lost territorial control, and some are now approaching fighting age, raising fears about future radicalization and recruitment. —

Efrat Lachter , Trey Yingst, FOXNews.com, 19 Feb. 2026 The start of the annual tour of spring training camps by union officials was pushed back a day and began Wednesday with the Kansas City Royals. —

Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026 Private and adaptive lessons, multiday camps, clinics, and special programs must be booked over the phone at (719) 530-5196. —

Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2026 Located at the farthest reaches of Northern California in Siskiyou County, Tule Lake was the most populated and, by many historical accounts, the harshest of the internment camps. —

Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 19 Feb. 2026 Four national teams — Argentina, England, The Netherlands and Algeria — will make their base camps in the Kansas City area for the duration of their stay in North America. —

Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2026 It has since been revised following talks with both camps. —

Tiago Ventura, Time, 18 Feb. 2026 Well, actually there are two different camps. —

Emily Elias, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 Feb. 2026

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Now a grandmother, the 65-year-old often camps with up to four generations of her family, from her husband to her grandchildren. —

Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 1 Dec. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for camps

Noun

Meanwhile, visitors from the campgrounds and Curry Village’s tent cabins were evacuated ahead of the storm earlier this week, according to SFGate.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
It's located at milepost 51 across from Big Meadows, an open area with campgrounds and spring wildflowers.

— Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2026