Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun camping

1 sense of camping

Sense 1
camping, encampment, bivouacking, tenting -- (the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp)
       => inhabitancy, inhabitation, habitation -- (the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men); "he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb camp

3 senses of camp

Sense 1
camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent -- (live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room")
       => populate, dwell, live, inhabit -- (inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods")

Sense 2
camp, camp down -- (establish or set up a camp)
       => pitch, set up -- (erect and fasten; "pitch a tent")

Sense 3
camp -- (give an artificially banal or sexual quality to)
       => change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")

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