campo

[kam-poh, kahm-]

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noun, plural cam·pos.

(in South America) an extensive, nearly level grassland plain.

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Origin of campo

1605–15; < Spanish < Latin campus field

El Campo

[el kam-poh]

noun

a town in S Texas.

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Examples from the Web for campo

On August 16, 1876, the chapel and its graveyard, Campo Santo, opened.
The Sacrificial Limbs of New Orleans|Nina Strochlic|March 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In 2010 two college-age American tourists died when someone slipped rogue narcotics into their cocktails—again at Campo dei Fiori.
Rome’s Deadly Pub Crawls Kill American College Student|Barbie Latza Nadeau|March 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The reputed dangers of the Campo Vaccino knocking at the gates of his memory, he loosened the sword in his scabbard.
Under the Witches' Moon|Nathan Gallizier
Yet even in this humble Campo Santo life will not yield entirely to death.
John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10)|John L. Stoddard

Pedro Montero from the Campo and the revolted garrison of Esmeralda from the sea are converging upon it.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard|Joseph Conrad
In 1478 the Pisan authorities had given him, as a token of their regard, a tomb in the Campo Santo.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3|Various
No one would contemplate the sacrifice of Venice by a new Campo Formio.
The Liberation of Italy|Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

British Dictionary definitions for campo

campo

noun plural -pos

(often plural) level or undulating savanna country, esp in the uplands of Brazil

Word Origin for campo

American Spanish, from Latin campus

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campo

noun, plural cam·pos.

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El Campo

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campo

noun plural -pos

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