base camp
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3.4
- noun
- /beɪs kæmp/
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campamento base
- We'll set up a base camp here at the resort.
- establish a base camp
I got back down to base camp and again, that was pretty difficult.
- I got back down to base camp and again, that was pretty difficult.
- But just be aware of how you're bringing stuff out of base camp.
- They've marched with us to base camp, but our goals are at the summit, applying what we know to explore the unforeseen.
- And we had no service down at base camp when we're rehearsing and doing work, only had service up in the cabins where we were staying.
- I finally got to Everest Base Camp or to the summit and risked my life.
- Our mission was simple, to continue the government's investigation into the mysteries of Area X, slowly working our way out from the base camp.
- And then we go to base camp and we fly to base camp.
- And establishing base camp for your cat, man, that's good stuff.
- Back to my base camp and I get there, I go to sleep.
- And then we're going to have a Snickers at every base camp.
- So I had to get in there, see how I can blow the hell out of that that base camp.
- Like I and I know that you, I mean, you like, had to kind of walk past dead people, right, That you that you had spent time with in base camp.
- I had it on my pack and I fucking and I left it there at the base camp because I broke it.
Examples
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Karen, Jordan, and his dad hiked into the first base camp on April 16.
Academic text (2011) -
I am alone, far off from our base camp, when I find it.
Fiction book (2002) -
I got back down to base camp and again, that was pretty difficult.
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Back to my base camp and I get there, I go to sleep.
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The others you round up and take to base camp.
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We'll use this place as a base camp.
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We had set up our base camp on an island That gave us a good view over much of the lake.
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We waded back to the boat and prepared for the long trip back to base camp.
Fiction book (2002) -
The next stage was to establish a base camp on the mountain at about 15,000ft.
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After a long day of hiking, we returned to base camp to rest and prepare for tomorrow's climb.
Synonyms
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1.0
A place where people stay in tents or simple buildings for a short time
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2.2
A place where soldiers or an organization live and work
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'main camp used as a starting point and support center' is directly and compositionally derived from 'base' (operations headquarters) + 'camp' (temporary site), following a standard noun + noun composition pattern. This construction is cross-linguistically common and therefore a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Base camp comes from mountain climbing. The word base means the bottom or main place and camp is where people sleep and keep supplies, so a base camp is the main place at the foot of a mountain that works as the 'starting point' and 'support' for a climb.