🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

campamento

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kam.paˈmen.to

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Campsite/ˈkæmp.saɪt/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #8500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Llegamos al campamento antes de que oscureciera."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A place where people can set up a tent or park a campervan, typically with toilet and water facilities.

    "We pitched our tent at a lovely campsite near the lake."
  2. 2

    An area historically or temporarily used by an army, group of travelers, or nomads to pitch tents or construct temporary shelters.

    "Archaeologists uncovered the ancient campsite dating back to the Bronze Age."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word is a compound of 'camp', derived from the Latin 'campus' (field or plain) via Italian and French, and 'site', from the Latin 'situs' (place or position). First emerging in the late 19th century as recreational camping grew in popularity, it combined the act of camping with the designated geographic location for it.

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