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Meaning of "camboose" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CAMBOOSE

From Canadian French, from French cambuse hut, store, from Dutch kambuis.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CAMBOOSE

camboose  [kæmˈbuːs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CAMBOOSE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Camboose is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CAMBOOSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of camboose in the English dictionary

The definition of camboose in the dictionary is a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen. Other definition of camboose is an open fireplace in such a cabin.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CAMBOOSE


Bruce
bruːs
caboose
kəˈbuːs
calaboose
ˈkæləˌbuːs
douce
duːs
Goes
ɡuːs
goose
ɡuːs
induce
ɪnˈdjuːs
introduce
ˌɪntrəˈdjuːs
juice
dʒuːs
juices
dʒuːs
loose
luːs
luce
luːs
moose
muːs
mousse
muːs
produce
prəˈdjuːs
reduce
rɪˈdjuːs
reproduce
ˌriːprəˈdjuːs
seduce
sɪˈdjuːs
spruce
spruːs
Zeus
zjuːs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CAMBOOSE

cambia
cambial
cambiform
cambism
cambist
cambistry
cambium
Cambodia
Cambodian
camboge
cambogia
Camborne-Redruth
Cambrai
cambrel
Cambria
Cambrian
Cambrian Mountains
cambric

WORDS THAT END LIKE CAMBOOSE

blue goose
Canada goose
choose
cut loose
footloose
golden goose
hang loose
have a screw loose
let loose
mongoose
Mother Goose
noose
on the loose
oose
papoose
pick and choose
play fast and loose
roose
the loose
vamoose

Synonyms and antonyms of camboose in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «camboose» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CAMBOOSE

Find out the translation of camboose to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of camboose from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «camboose» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

camboose
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

camboose
570 millions of speakers

English

camboose
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

camboose
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

camboose
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

camboose
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

camboose
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

camboose
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cambuse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Camboose
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

camboose
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

camboose
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

camboose
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Camboose
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

camboose
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

camboose
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कांबोझ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

camboose
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

camboose
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

camboose
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

camboose
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

camboose
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

camboose
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

camboose
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

camboose
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

camboose
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of camboose

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CAMBOOSE»

The term «camboose» is normally little used and occupies the 139.032 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CAMBOOSE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «camboose» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «camboose» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about camboose

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAMBOOSE»

Discover the use of camboose in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to camboose and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Army and Navy Chronicle, and Scientific Repository
CAMBOOSE IRON, Navy Commissioners' Office, May S, 1839. PROPOSALS, sealed and endorsed, will be received at this office until 3 o'clock, p. m. of the first day of June next, for furnishing and delivering at the Navy Yard, Washington, D C , ...
William Quereau Force, 1839
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Army and Navy Chronicle
CAMBOOSE IRON. Navv Commissioners' Office, May 8, 1839. PROPOSALS, sealed and endorsed, will be received at this office until 3 o'clock, p. m. of the first day of June next, for furnishing and delivering at the Navy Yard, Washington, D C , ...
Benjamin Homans, 1839
3
Soldier Boys
Germans in the camboose, the proud and arrogant veterans of the conquest of Europe, proceeded to show the green Canadians, veterans of Camp Borden and Current River, how to execute a textbook combat manoeuvre. While some fired ...
G. F. McCauley, 2003
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The Monthly Magazine
THIS machine, which is called a hearth or camboose, for the use of ships and vessels, or otherwise for the purposes of couking at sea, as also su)>- plying from the evaporation and condensation of sea or salt water, a sufficiency of good fresh  ...
Sir Richard Phillips, 1807
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Frolic Archaeological Survey
There is also a “camboose” mentioned on the outfitting list. A camboose or “ caboose” is a small house or shack built on the deck for the galley (Bathe 1978: 3.12, Kemp 1988:126). A visual survey of Ephratah shows a caboose just aft of the ...
Sheli Smith, 2005
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Army and Navy Chronicle
CAMBOOSE IRON. Navy Commissioners' Office, May 8, 1839. PROPOSALS, scaled and endorsed, will be received at this office until 3 o'clock, p. m. of the first day of June next, for furnishing and delivering at the Navy Yard, Washington, D C » ...
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Niles' Weekly Register
... 18,000 bolts ofduck, 3.000 tons of iron hoops,_ 6,000,000 stavcs, 2,000 tons cordiige and whale warp, with large quantities of iron for harpoons, lances, spades, bluhber-hooks and camboose grates; much molasses, rice, beans, peas, corn, ...
8
Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the ...
Port charges, consular fees, filling water .... camboose $20 — longboat 25 — trucking ,60 — knives and forks 1 plates, bowls, hatchet and gridiron 2 bolts duck and twine taken from cargo to repair mainsail at sea iron strap for dead-eye and 6  ...
Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court, 1864
9
Shantymen of Cache Lake
ln the next few hours, John hadto haul enough firewood into the camboose and foreman's shanties for the whole day, fetch the water from the waterhole in the ice , help the teamsters prepare the animals for the day's work and then begin the ...
Bill Freeman, 1975
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Holy Old Whistlin': Yarns about Algonquin Park Loggers
Paul and I, also unexpectedly, came across the remains of an old "camboose" camp one day. A camboose camp was used to accommodate loggers in the mid to late 1880s. It was a one-room, low- profile log structure, which served as ...
Brent Connelly, 2005

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAMBOOSE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term camboose is used in the context of the following news items.
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Researchers tracking history in the wilds of...
His research has helped accurately rebuild historic logging relics, such as camboose shanty fireplaces, and preserve part of the park's cultural ... «www.muskokaregion.com/?, Aug 14»
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Сonsecration of the camboose on "Trikand" frigate
Сonsecration of the camboose on "Trikand" frigate. RussiaNowTV. SubscribeSubscribedUnsubscribe 932. Subscription preferences. Loading. «YouTube, Nov 12»
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Round-shots and bridge toll repeal sparked Anacostia
The most preeminent positions were filled by 300 ship-carpenters, 200 machinists, 150 blacksmiths, 50 joiners, 60 plumbers and camboose ... «Greater Greater Washington, Jun 12»

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