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Definitions: Camper |
CamperNoun1. Someone living temporarily in a tent or lodge for recreation. 2. A recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "camper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
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Personal Care & Hotels | What. . campers. . are in effect is a metal frame on a pickup truck, with space inside for beds, storage and even cooking. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Noun, verb. Source: Comes from the idea that if someone "camps" then they usually find a place to make camp and set up their camping site there. Definition: Noun: Refers to a person that only stays in a particular area in order to take advantage of a weakness or a flaw in the design of a level because they have poor playing skills.Verb: "to camp" means that someone is in the act of taking unfair advantage of a level. Context: Used to refer to a person that is known to camp out on levels or to tell other players during a game that someone is camping out in a particular place in the level. Social Source: Online Computer Game Players. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Types of campers:
Some campers are innovative and original as in this portable cabin.
Campers are generally used for camping trips and moved between location although they are also sometimes parked semi-permanently o long term sites at private campgrounds or on private property. They are sometimes used in semi-permanent setup as hunting camps or hunting blinds. Some people, particularly retirees, live permanently in campers usually RVs and move from place to place, following their whims or favorite weather. "Camper" is a derogatory term used in online games (particularly First-person shooter games such as Counter-Strike) for someone who stays in a tactically useless area and does not move. Often, players who choose to stay in advantageous areas are called this as well.
See also Travel trailer. The word Camper is also used by alternative music as shorthand to refer to the band Camper Van Beethoven.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Camper."
Synonyms: CamperSynonyms: camping bus (n), motor home (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Camper |
| English words defined with "camper": camper trailer, caravan ♦ van ♦ Wou-wou. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "camper": INSTALLER-INSPECTOR, FINAL. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Camper" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (bunk, camp, plant, tent), German (camper), Italian (camper, recreational vehicle). |
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Screenplays | Then one Christmas I got them a camper and all they wanted to do was hang out in it by themselves. (My Girl; writing credit: Laurice Elehwany. Starring Dan Aykroyd as Harry Sultenfuss, Jamie Lee Curtis as Shelly DeVoto, Macaulay Culkin as Thomas J. Sennett, and Anna Chlumsky as Vada Sultenfuss.) Chief! Ya know that guy whose camper they were whackin' off in? (Beavis and Butt-head Do America; writing credit: Mike Judge;) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bobby Bumps Daylight Camper (1917) Die Camper (1997) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | 4H summer camper works on a piece of needle work.Credit: USDA. |  | [Evolution of the head and skull, shown in profile] / Camper fec. 1768.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Petrus Camper. / Reinr. Vinkeles ad vivum delin, et Sculp.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Petrus Camper. / Reinr. Vinkeles ad vivum delin, et Sculp.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And as each guest came through the gate he mentioned the name of the camper who had invited him. |
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Economic History | Japan | These publications often represent a cost-effective means to reach a specific target consumer -- whether gourmet or gardener, cyclist or camper. (references) |
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| "Camper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.44% of the time. "Camper" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 84.44% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.33% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 2.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 45 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "camper" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Camper | Last name | 2,000 | 7,426 |
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Expressions using "camper": camper out ♦ camper trailer ♦ happy camper. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "camper": camper-caravan. | |
Ending with "camper": Canoe-camper. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
camper | 4,349 |
pop up camper | 1,998 |
truck camper | 1,327 |
camper shell | 892 |
coleman camper | 840 |
camper van | 625 |
camper rental | 546 |
camper shoes | 521 |
used camper | 508 |
camper trailer | 501 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "camper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mikrobus kampimi, kampist, fushues. (various references) | |
Basque | karabana. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лагеруващ, лагерник. (various references) | |
Chinese | 露营车. (various references) | |
Czech | tábornice, táborník. (various references) | |
Dutch | Kampeerbus,kampeerauto. (various references) | |
French | camionnette de campisme, camionnette de camping. (various references) | |
German | Zeltbewohner. (various references) | |
Greek | κατασκηνών. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sátorozó, lakóautó (dormobil, mobile home, motor caravan, RV), kempingező. (various references) | |
Indonesian | karavan (camper (auto), caravan). (various references) | |
Italian | campeggiatore. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | キャリア組 (base, calibration, camp, camp in, camp site, camper-van, campfire, camping, campus, campus shoes, campus wear, cancel, canceler, canceller, cancer, candle, candle service, candlestick, candy, cantaloupe, canter, canvas, career bureaucrats, carol, carriage, mobile home, model featured in an advertising campaign, RV). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | キャンパー . (various references) | |
Korean | 야영자. (various references) | |
Manx | campeyder. (various references) | |
Occitan | caravana. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ampercay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | campista, trelha, soldado de acampamento. (various references) | |
Romanian | vilegiaturist (holiday maker). (various references) | |
Russian | отдыхающий (vacationist). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | karavan (caravan), kamperski, kamper. (various references) | |
Spanish | campero, campañista. (various references) | |
Swedish | campare. (various references) | |
Turkish | kampçı, kamp yapan kimse, kamp arabası. (various references) | |
Ukranian | учасник поїздки за місто, турист (excursionist, tourist), вугілля з домішками, екскурсант (excursionist, tripper), дачник (cottager). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "camper": campers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "camper": scamper. (additional references) | |
Words containing "camper": scampered, scampering, scampers. (additional references) | |
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"Camper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acampora, Amper, cadpr, Calper, camer, campe, campen, campera, Campero, campery, campher, camphre, Campri, champert, champery, Cimper, comper, compr, Cwmparc, kimper, shamper. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "camper" (pronounced ka"mper) |
| 5 | k a" m p er | scamper. |
| 4 | -a" m p er | damper, hamper, pamper, Stamper, tamper. |
| 3 | -m p er | bumper, distemper, dumper, jumper, lumper, mumper, shrimper, simper, swamper, temper, Thumper, whimper. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-m-p-r" | |
-1 letter: caper, cramp, crape, cream, macer, pacer, recap, remap. | |
-2 letters: acme, acre, aper, came, camp, cape, care, carp, cram, crap, mace, marc, mare, pace, pare, pear, perm, pram, race, ramp, rape, ream, reap. | |
-3 letters: ace, amp, ape, arc, are, arm, cam, cap, car, cep, ear, era, mac, mae, map, mar, pac, pam, par, pea, pec, per, ram, rap, rec, rem, rep. | |
-4 letters: ae, am, ar, em, er, ma, me, pa, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-m-p-r" | |
+1 letter: campers, campier, champer, clamper, compare, cramped, scamper. | |
+2 letters: campfire, camphire, camporee, capmaker, capsomer, champers, clampers, compadre, compared, comparer, compares, copremia, impacter, mercapto, mesocarp, parecism, sapremic, scampers. | |
+3 letters: ametropic, campfires, camphires, camporees, capmakers, capsomers, champerty, compacter, compadres, comparers, comparted, copremias, creamcups, creampuff, empirical, graphemic, impacters, imprecate, marchpane, mercaptan, mesocarps, metacarpi, pacemaker, pachyderm, paramecia, paramedic, parchment, parecisms, preatomic, primacies, scampered, spermatic, supremacy. | |
+4 letters: alphameric, amphimacer, amphoteric, camelopard, campaigner, campestral, camphorate, compacters, comparable, complainer, compradore, creampuffs, epicardium, escarpment, graphemics, hermatypic, hypermanic, importance, imprecated, imprecates, macrophage, macrophyte, madreporic, marchpanes, mascarpone, megaparsec, megasporic, mercaptans, metacarpal, metacarpus, metaphoric, microphage, pacemakers, pachyderms, paramecium, paramedics, parametric, parchments, parenchyma, peacemaker, permanence, permanency, pharmacies, pockmarked, preachment, premedical, proclaimed, proclaimer, rampancies, scampering, spermaceti, supermacho, temperance. | |
+5 letters: amphimacers, atmospheric, camelopards, campaigners, camphorated, camphorates, champerties, champertous, comparative, compartment, compensator, complainers, compradores, comradeship, cryptomeria, demographic, dimercaprol, emancipator, empirically, escarpments, importances, imprecating, imprecation, imprecatory, intercampus, macrophages, macrophytes, malpractice, marketplace, mascarpones, masterpiece, megaparsecs, megaproject, metacarpals, metamorphic, metanephric, microampere, microphages, parameciums, paramedical, parenchymal, parenchymas, peacemakers, performance, pericardium, pericranium, permanences, planimetric, preachments, predicament, preromantic, problematic, proclaimers, proctodaeum, pyromancies, replacement, spectrogram, spermacetis, spermatheca, spermicidal, supermachos, supremacies, supremacist, temperances, unempirical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6D 70 65 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -- .--. . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a m p e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006D 0070 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376779827184 |
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