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

The Russian departure from much of northern Mali will enable jihadist groups to set up training camps in the vast spaces vacated, paving the way for further expansion, a scenario especially feared by Algeria. —

Ulf Laessing, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026 The Carter County Museum hosts dinosaur camps for kids, while the Great Plains Dinosaur Museum offers five-day adult dig expeditions and a junior paleontologist program, a one-day dig experience for children ages 5-11. —

Alex Temblador, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026 The roughly two-acre park would be the first to directly highlight the Dust Bowl and migrant farming camps of the Great Depression, officials said. —

Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026 By 1955, when Sol graduated from high school, psychiatry had split almost perfectly into two camps. —

Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026 Among the most painful letters are those between Scheidt’s father and his brother, who would also spend time in internment camps. —

Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026 In the mid-20th century, field recordings fell into a few different camps, most of which were straightforward. —

Joshua Minsoo Kim, Pitchfork, 28 Apr. 2026 Their journey takes them through refugee camps in France and aboard the SS Winnipeg, the ship that carried 2,400 Spanish refugees to safety in Chile. —

Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2026 Two decades ago, Alckmin and Lula were on opposite camps in almost every issue, including the negotiations for a deal between the EU and the bloc that includes Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. —

ABC News, 23 Apr. 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for camps

Noun

And in Death Valley, water was shut off at two campgrounds.

— Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
The suspension of burn permits does not apply to campfires within organized campgrounds or on private property.

— City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026