campo
[kam-poh, kahm-]
- (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]
- a town in S Texas.
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Examples from the Web for campo
Contemporary Examples
On August 16, 1876, the chapel and its graveyard, Campo Santo, opened.
In 2010 two college-age American tourists died when someone slipped rogue narcotics into their cocktails—again at Campo dei Fiori.
Historical Examples
And so they go, up the white, dusty road, to the campo santo.
His underlings were burnt in the Campo di Fiori in the following month.
The Life of Cesare BorgiaRaphael Sabatini
It was a material train returning from the Campo to the palisaded yards.
Nostromo: A Tale of the SeaboardJoseph Conrad
Has not the master of the mine any message to send to Hernandez, the master of the Campo?
Nostromo: A Tale of the SeaboardJoseph Conrad
Politics were good enough for the people of the town and the Campo.
Nostromo: A Tale of the SeaboardJoseph Conrad
campo
- (often plural) level or undulating savanna country, esp in the uplands of Brazil
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Word Origin
American Spanish, from Latin campus
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