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base camp

noun

  1. a main encampment providing supplies, shelter, and communications for persons engaged in wide-ranging activities, as exploring, reconnaissance, hunting, or mountain climbing.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of base camp1

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Example Sentences

It's your new adventure base camp for exploring the Southwest's iconic deserts and canyon country.

Then, in 2006 at Everest Base Camp, Lakpa learned she was pregnant again.

When author Jon Krakauer wrote about a woman having raucous sex in Base Camp, many speculated it was Hill.

She recognized their lethal working conditions, an underlying reason for the clash, and had treated them at the Base Camp ER.

The teams had been snowed in at the Novo base camp for several days and the whole expedition was in doubt at one stage.

He appears to be seedy, but has been quite hopeless as Sirdar down in the base camp and is without authority.

We learned a little later that Colonel Howard-Bury had arrived the night before in our base camp.

My servant remained at the base camp and sent up cooked meat and vegetables; otherwise I cooked for myself.

On August 21 I moved back to my base camp at the glacier snout, again trying for a station at the corner—and failing.

Merced Lake is undoubtedly the best base camp for trips thruout the entire upper watershed of the Merced River.

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