camper

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæmpɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæmpə/

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• Rhymes: -æmpə(ɹ)

From camp (verb) +‎ -er.

camper (plural campers)

1. A person who camps, especially in a tent etc.

   There were thousands of campers at the music festival.

   • 2008 March 13, David Pogue, “Media Players, Untethered”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     They're indispensable for backpackers, campers and anyone else who plans to be away from a power outlet for a while; indeed, both the Solar and the Eco Player are ruggedly built, with rubberized nonscratchable surfaces.

   • 2010, Erjan J. Slavin, The Tale of the Mirror (& The Wishing Tree Poetry), →ISBN, page 72:

     To be sung to in this way by the entire faery kingdom, each member of it born from the heartsong of a camper, was truly a delight that not many, I believe, have known.

2. A motor vehicle with a rear compartment for living and sleeping in.
   • 2003, Roberta Martin Starry, Gold Gamble, page 156:

     The moonshiners are now only a memory, but the sunrisers have grown into many hundreds, with trailers and campers pulling into Red Rock Canyon days early for a good parking spot.

3. (video games, derogatory) A person who stays in one spot during a first-person shooting game, to guard an item etc.

From camp (adjective) +‎ -er.

camper

1. comparative form of camp: more camp

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəmˈpe]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kamˈpeɾ]

camper m (plural campers)

1. smallholder
2. (heraldry) field

Borrowed from English camper.

• IPA^(key): /kaːmpər/, [ˈkʰæːmb̥ɐ]

camper c (singular definite camperen, plural indefinite campere)

1. camper (motor vehicle with a rear compartment for living and sleeping in) [from 1986]

• autocamper

See campere (“to camp”).

• IPA^(key): /kampeːr/, [kʰɑmˈpʰeːˀɐ̯]

camper or campér

1. imperative of campere

Borrowed from English camper.

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛm.pər/

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• Hyphenation: cam‧per

camper m (plural campers, diminutive campertje n)

1. a camper (recreational vehicle), a motor home

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camper

1. to camp
2. to plant, install, stand firmly

• camper sur ses positions

• “camper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• crampe

Unadapted borrowing from English camper.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkam.per/^[1]
• Rhymes: -amper
• Hyphenation: càm‧per

camper m (invariable)

1. campervan, camper

   Synonym: autocaravan

• campar

From kampe +‎ -er (agentive suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkampər/

camper

1. (rare) A participant in a ball sport.

• “camper, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 30 June 2018.

Unadapted borrowing from English camper.

camper m or f by sense (plural campers)

1. (video games, Internet slang) camper (person who stays in one spot during a FPS game)