campfire
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- noun
- /ˈkæmˌfaɪər/
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- The scouts gathered around the campfire to roast marshmallows and share stories.
- campfire stories
- campfire songs
- set up a campfire
So candlelight and fireplaces and campfires are, are fine.
- So candlelight and fireplaces and campfires are, are fine.
- But when it's night time, in the evening, it's campfire time, you know, you light a fire.
- There was no light unless it was the stars of the moon or a campfire giving off red light.
- The Eliot and the Odyssey were sung, you know, at campfires.
- And then he saw a tiny pinpoint of light, like a almost like a campfire in the distance.
- Like I love spooky stories and campfire stories.
- Does he play his guitar to you by the campfire?
- The first is that when I was very young, I heard a story around a campfire that like, stuck inside of me.
- And I wonder whether that almost mimics in some regards the typical campfire surrounding.
- This one was a campfire story to me and it's called licking licking.
- We're done being, we're done being like Kumbaya on the campfire.
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It's one thing to hear stories around a campfire; it's something else to see the place with survivors.
Academic text (2003) -
People moving in the glow of the campfire were visible on the other side of the brook.
Fiction book (1993) -
There was no light unless it was the stars of the moon or a campfire giving off red light.
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Tell ghost stories by the campfire before it gets dark.
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This was my first ever tattoo and I got it after a conversation with three friends around a campfire in my friend's forest.
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Behind him is a small campfire where the other guys are slumped around talking.
Fiction book (1993) -
When they sang "Alouette" around the campfire, she did not know any of the French words.
Fiction book (1990) -
In just a few hours, you'll be sitting around a campfire with Andy making delicious, hot "sch'moes."
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Numair began to get out the ingredients for campfire bread as Kitten watched with interest.
Fiction book (1994) -
As the sun set, we sat by the campfire, enjoying the warmth and the sound of crackling wood.
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Etymology
Campfire comes from two simple words: camp (as in camping, 'a place where people stay outdoors') and fire ('flame'). So a campfire is the fire you light at a camp for warmth, cooking, or sitting around with friends.