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champaign
1[ sham-peyn ]
noun
- level, open country; plain.
- Obsolete. a battlefield.
adjective
- level and open:
champaign fields.
Champaign
2[ sham-peyn ]
noun
- a city in E Illinois, adjoining Urbana.
champaign
/ ʃæmˈpeɪn /
noun
- Also calledcampagna an expanse of open level or gently undulating country
- See battlefieldan obsolete word for battlefield
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Origin of champaign1
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Example Sentences
Both alternate between the past and the present; both feature Urbana-Champaign as a significant setting.
There are also practitioners of this dark art in Portland, Oregon; Champaign, Illinois; and … the Upper East Side of Manhattan?
And since 1999, he hosted the Roger Ebert Film Festival in Champaign, Illinois, home to the University of Illinois.
She studied creative writing and got an M.B.A. in marketing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He won a masters in engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after studying there as an undergrad.
In 1865 he removed to the middle west, settling in Champaign county, Illinois, where he resided for a decade.
Soon afterward he removed to Champaign county, Illinois, where he was engaged in farming up to the time of his death.
That is the big champaign, coated with two feet of snow, where a great Action is now to go forward.
It was like the escarped rampart of a stupendous fortress, whose glacis was the beach, and whose champaign the ocean.
Nassau has already seized Budweis; and it is a habitable champaign country in comparison.
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