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URBAN CAMPING

ur·ban

[ur-buhn]

–adjective

1.	of, pertaining to, or designating a city or town.

2.	living in a city.

3.	characteristic of or accustomed to cities; citified: He is an urban type.

Origin:
1610–20; < L urbanus, equiv. to urb- (s. of urbs) city + -anus -an

camp¹ (kamp)

A place where tents, huts, or other temporary shelters are set up, as by soldiers, nomads, or travelers.
A cabin or shelter or group of such buildings: gathered branches and grasses for a makeshift camp; had a fishing camp in Vermont.
The people using such shelters: a howl that awakened the whole camp.

v. camped, camp·ing, camps

v. intr.

To make or set up a camp.
To live in or as if in a camp; settle: We camped in the apartment until the furniture arrived.

v. tr.
To shelter or lodge in a camp; encamp: They camped themselves by a river.