champaign

¹

[ sham-peyn ]

noun

1. level, open country; plain.
2. Obsolete. a battlefield.

adjective

1. level and open:

   champaign fields.

Champaign

²

[ sham-peyn ]

noun

1. a city in E Illinois, adjoining Urbana.

champaign

/ ʃæmˈpeɪn /

noun

1. Also calledcampagna an expanse of open level or gently undulating country
2. an obsolete word for battlefield

Word History and Origins

Origin of champaign¹

1350–1400; Middle English champai ( g ) ne < Middle French champa ( i ) gne < Latin campānia; campaign

Word History and Origins

Origin of champaign¹

C14: from Old French champaigne, from Late Latin campānia; see campaign

Example Sentences

Too few people may want to fly from Champaign, Illinois, to Denver, Colorado, for example, to support a regular direct flight.

From Popular-Science

Peers in Vancouver, New York, Champaign-Urbana, and Glasgow are building similar facilities.

From MIT Technology Review

Smith said of the planned trip to Champaign, “We had made adjustments on Friday to fly up on Saturday morning,” before calling off even that.

From Washington Post

Both alternate between the past and the present; both feature Urbana-Champaign as a significant setting.

From The Daily Beast

There are also practitioners of this dark art in Portland, Oregon; Champaign, Illinois; and … the Upper East Side of Manhattan?

From The Daily Beast

And since 1999, he hosted the Roger Ebert Film Festival in Champaign, Illinois, home to the University of Illinois.

From The Daily Beast

She studied creative writing and got an M.B.A. in marketing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

From The Daily Beast

He won a masters in engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after studying there as an undergrad.

From The Daily Beast

In 1865 he removed to the middle west, settling in Champaign county, Illinois, where he resided for a decade.

From Project Gutenberg

Soon afterward he removed to Champaign county, Illinois, where he was engaged in farming up to the time of his death.

From Project Gutenberg

That is the big champaign, coated with two feet of snow, where a great Action is now to go forward.

From Project Gutenberg

It was like the escarped rampart of a stupendous fortress, whose glacis was the beach, and whose champaign the ocean.

From Project Gutenberg

Nassau has already seized Budweis; and it is a habitable champaign country in comparison.

From Project Gutenberg

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