champaign

[ sham-peyn ]

/ ʃæmˈpeɪn /

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noun

level, open country; plain.

Obsolete. a battlefield.

adjective

level and open: champaign fields.

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Origin of champaign

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

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH champaign

champagne, champaign

Words nearby champaign

champ, champac, champagne, Champagne-Ardenne, champagne socialist, champaign, Champaigne, champ at the bit, champers, champerty, champignon

Other definitions for champaign (2 of 2)

Champaign

[ sham-peyn ]

/ ʃæmˈpeɪn /

noun

a city in E Illinois, adjoining Urbana.

How to use champaign in a sentence

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.
Ohio State football could have played, but AD said it wouldn’t have been ‘the right thing’|Chuck Culpepper|November 28, 2020|Washington Post
Both alternate between the past and the present; both feature Urbana-Champaign as a significant setting.
The Bioterrorist Who Loved Mahler|Ron Hogan|January 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There are also practitioners of this dark art in Portland, Oregon; Champaign, Illinois; and … the Upper East Side of Manhattan?
Could I Possibly Have Been Wrong About the French Fry Burger?|Daniel Gross|September 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And since 1999, he hosted the Roger Ebert Film Festival in Champaign, Illinois, home to the University of Illinois.
Roger Ebert, 70, Has Died: A Look at the Life of Cinema’s Great Appreciator|Marlow Stern|April 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST

She studied creative writing and got an M.B.A. in marketing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The Detective Who Can't Remember Clues|Jane Ciabattari|July 27, 2011|DAILY BEAST
He won a masters in engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after studying there as an undergrad.
The Guy Who's Got $700 Billion of Your Money|Ross Goldberg|October 9, 2008|DAILY BEAST
In 1865 he removed to the middle west, settling in Champaign county, Illinois, where he resided for a decade.
Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 (of 2)|William Denison Lyman
Soon afterward he removed to Champaign county, Illinois, where he was engaged in farming up to the time of his death.
Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 (of 2)|William Denison Lyman
That is the big champaign, coated with two feet of snow, where a great Action is now to go forward.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XII. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
It was like the escarped rampart of a stupendous fortress, whose glacis was the beach, and whose champaign the ocean.
Cape Cod|Henry D. Thoreau
Nassau has already seized Budweis; and it is a habitable champaign country in comparison.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XV. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle

British Dictionary definitions for champaign

champaign

/ (ʃæmˈpeɪn) /

noun

Also called: campagna an expanse of open level or gently undulating country

an obsolete word for battlefield

Word Origin for champaign

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

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champaign

Origin of champaign

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