Definition of Summer camp

1. Noun. A site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months. "City kids get to see the country at a summer camp"

Exact synonyms: Camp
Specialized synonyms: Day Camp
Generic synonyms: Land Site, Site

Definition of Summer camp

1. Noun. An institution devoted to housing and entertaining children for the summer. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Summer Camp

summative
summatively
summats
summed
summed up
summer
summer's day
summer-camp
summer-house
summer-like
summer-stirring
summer-time
summer-work
summer and winter
summer boarder
summer camp (current term)
summer camps
summer cohosh
summer cottage
summer crookneck
summer cypress
summer damask rose
summer duck
summer fallow
summer flounder
summer haw
summer house
summer hyacinth
summer melt
summer pruning

Literary usage of Summer camp

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1872)
"A summer camp ON A NEW ENGLAND LAKE. IT is now some years ago that the writer, with a party of friends, spent the "heated term" of an American summer in an ..."

2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1918)
"Life in a summer camp or in a soldier's training-camp differs from ordinary home life in being _-Sl run on a regular daily program. ..."

3. The Play Movement and Its Significance by Henry Stoddard Curtis (1917)
"THE summer camp Los Angeles probably has the most notable playground camp that there is in this country. It is located in the mountains above San Bernardino ..."

4. Planned Invasion of Japan, 1945: The Siberian Weather Advantage by Hatten Schuyler Yoder (1997)
"INSTALLATION OF MOKO BASE summer camp. ALL THE GEAR was quickly loaded into Studebaker trucks, and personnel, including the flight crews, were told to stand ..."

5. Planned Invasion of Japan, 1945: The Siberian Weather Advantage by Hatten Schuyler Yoder (1997)
"INSTALLATION OF MOKO BASE summer camp. ALL THE GEAR was quickly loaded into Studebaker trucks, and personnel, including the flight crews, were told to stand ..."

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