campsite

or camp-site

[ kamp-sahyt ]

/ ˈkæmpˌsaɪt /

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noun

a place used or suitable for camping.

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Origin of campsite

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10; camp¹ + site

How to use campsite in a sentence

So I drove around the corner to the trailhead of the logging road that led back to the crash site.
The 7-Year-Old Plane Crash Survivor’s Brutal Journey Through the Woods|James Higdon|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Instead, the man and woman in the truck wanted to know where the crash site was and whether would I show them.
The 7-Year-Old Plane Crash Survivor’s Brutal Journey Through the Woods|James Higdon|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Pitchfork called him a “a rap-obsessed misfit from a summer camp who freestyles poorly” who is “ridiculous without knowing it.”
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The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
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"A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
In the most perfect stillness, we arrived within two hundred paces of the enemy's camp.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Meanwhile, he had been selected as aide-de-camp by General d'Ure de Molans.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Thus the whole State became one vast armed camp, nearly forty thousand men on a side, arrayed against each other.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn

British Dictionary definitions for campsite

camp site

noun

an area on which holiday-makers may pitch a tent, etcAlso called: camping site

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