champaign
level, open country; plain.
Obsolete. a battlefield.
level and open: champaign fields.
Origin of champaign
1Words that may be confused with champaign
- champagne, champaign
Words Nearby champaign
Other definitions for Champaign (2 of 2)
a city in E Illinois, adjoining Urbana.
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How to use champaign in a sentence
Too few people may want to fly from champaign, Illinois, to Denver, Colorado, for example, to support a regular direct flight.
Epic delays and flight cancellations: How the US airline industry can get back up to speed | Teresa Carr/Undark | January 12, 2022 | Popular-SciencePeers in Vancouver, New York, champaign-Urbana, and Glasgow are building similar facilities.
This chemist is reimagining the discovery of materials using AI and automation | Simon Lewsen | October 27, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewSmith 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 PostBoth 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?
Could I Possibly Have Been Wrong About the French Fry Burger? | Daniel Gross | September 4, 2013 | THE 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 | THE DAILY BEASTShe 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.
Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 (of 2) | William Denison LymanSoon 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 LymanThat 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 CarlyleIt was like the escarped rampart of a stupendous fortress, whose glacis was the beach, and whose champaign the ocean.
Cape Cod | Henry D. ThoreauNassau 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
/ (ʃæmˈpeɪn) /
Also called: campagna an expanse of open level or gently undulating country
an obsolete word for battlefield
Origin of champaign
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