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

Then there’s the financial (and administrative) obligation of patching together camps that cost hundreds of dollars per week, per child. —

Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 4 June 2026 These camps focus on helping kids develop useful skills including local wildlife tracking, science topics, robotics and developing video games. —

Sacbee.com, 4 June 2026 In addition to this itinerary, White Desert operates remote camps in Antarctica, flying guests from Cape Town and offering the chance to sleep on the Seventh Continent while exploring penguin colonies, going on glacier hikes, and even visiting the South Pole. —

Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2026 The opening match of the year’s biggest tournament is exactly one week away, and squads are beginning to arrive at their base camps across North America. —

Alex Connor, USA Today, 4 June 2026 The squad has played three friendlies in two training camps in Antalya since the start of the war — losing to Nigeria and beating Costa Rica and Gambia — and on Thursday will face Mali in the Turkish sea resort. —

Reuters, NBC news, 3 June 2026 Both camps were under strict instructions not to engage with politically motivated questions in prematch press conferences. —

Michael Cox, New York Times, 3 June 2026 And the answer to every policy disagreement cannot be another political race to the bottom, where everyone retreats into their camps and assumes bad intentions from everyone else. —

Susana A. Mendoza, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026 Nearly 1 million people live in dense displacement camps in the province. —

Emmet Livingstone, NPR, 28 May 2026

Verb

That sounds like a figure of speech because nobody camps out overnight for tickets anymore. —

Phil Hay, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026 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

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Noun

Where to Stay Fort Clinch has two campgrounds—one along the Amelia River and another steps from the Atlantic.

— Taryn Shorr-Mckee, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2026
Kris decides to visit the movie’s original star, Billy Presley, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery who lives in the campgrounds where early iterations of the franchise were shot.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 27 May 2026