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camp meeting

noun

  1. a religious gathering held in a tent or in the open air.


camp meeting

noun

  1. a religious meeting held in a large tent or outdoors, often lasting several days
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of camp meeting1

First recorded in 1790–1800
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Example Sentences

The new project, already underway, is a massive restoration designed to transform the existing building, originally built in 1890 and used as a camp meeting house, into a modern structure with historic charm.

One observer described the march as “part camp meeting, part joyful picnic, and part a determined almost fierce political rally uniting people of so many kinds and conditions.”

He said it warn't no use talking, heathens don't amount to shucks alongside of pirates to work a camp-meeting with.

The king got the directions, and allowed he'd go and work that camp-meeting for all it was worth, and I might go, too.

Sal Furbush generally took the lead, and mounting the kitchen table, sung camp meeting hymns as loud as she could scream.

Down at the camp-meeting I promised God to love my enemies, uncle.

He claimed always to be rigidly righteous, and was seen in the camp-meeting and the church sanctified and demure to a proverb.

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