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PRONUNCIATION OF HIGH CAMP

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HIGH CAMP

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High camp is a noun.
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WHAT DOES HIGH CAMP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

high camp

Camp (style)

Camp is an aesthetic sensibility that regards something as appealing or humorous because of its ridiculousness to the viewer. Camp aesthetics disrupt many modernists’ notions of what art is and what can be classified as high art by inverting aesthetic attributes such as beauty, value and taste through an invitation of a different kind of apprehension and consumption. Camp can also be a social practice. For many it is considered a style and performance identity for several types of entertainment including but not limited to film, cabaret and pantomime. Where high art necessarily incorporates beauty and value, camp necessarily needs to be lively, audacious and dynamic. “Camp aesthetics delights in impertinence.” Camp opposes satisfaction and seeks to challenge The concept is related to kitsch, and things with camp appeal may also be described as being "cheesy". When the usage appeared, in 1909, it denoted: ostentatious, exaggerated, affected...

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HIGH CAMP

high and dry
high and low
high and mighty
High Arctic
high as a kite
high bar
high beam
high board
high brass
high bypass ratio engine
high C
high chair
High Church
high comedian
high comedy
high command
High Commission
high commissioner
high concept
high country

WORDS THAT END LIKE HIGH CAMP

base camp
boot camp
break camp
camp
concentration camp
fat camp
health camp
holiday camp
internment camp
labour camp
nudist camp
POW camp
prison camp
refugee camp
rest camp
Scout camp
summer camp
tennis camp
training camp
transit camp
work camp

Synonyms and antonyms of high camp in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «high camp» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HIGH CAMP

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

Translator English - Chinese

高营
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

campamento de altura
570 millions of speakers

English

high camp
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उच्च शिविर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مخيم عالية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

высокий лагерь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

acampamento alto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উচ্চ ক্যাম্প
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

camp d´altitude
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kem yang tinggi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hochlager
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハイキャンプ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

고 캠프
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dhuwur camp
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

trại cao
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உயர் முகாம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उच्च शिबिर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yüksek kamp
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

campo alto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wysoki obóz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

високий табір
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tabără mare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υψηλή στρατόπεδο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hoë kamp
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hög läger
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

High Camp
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of high camp

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HIGH CAMP»

The term «high camp» is regularly used and occupies the 64.583 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about high camp

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIGH CAMP»

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High camp: a gay guide to camp and cult films
A Gay Guide to Camp & Cult Films A companion volume to the earlier best-selling first volume, this handy guide to cinematic perversity contains in-depth surveys of over 150 camp and cult classics.
Paul Roen, 1997
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Great Places: Washington: A Recreational Guide to ...
Perched at 5,000 feet along the northern edge of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, High Camp consists of several cabins in the woods that surround a bright and cheery day lodge. There is no electricity at this backcountry camp. However, each  ...
John Kruse, 2009
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Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality
I never can understand how critics managed to do without it."' Through Charles, Isherwood divides camp into two categories: Low and High Camp. Low Camp is " a swishy little boy with peroxided hair, dressed in a picture hat and a feather boa,  ...
David Bergman, 1993
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LIFE
Thus the FBI is Conscious Camp, while the CIA is Unconscious Camp. Cautionary Note: Although both Camp and Pop Culture are third streams of taste with little relation to good or bad, thev are far from synonymous. High Camp, like the Rand ...
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Performing Gender and Comedy: Theories, Texts and Contexts
Isherwood concludes that one can only partake of high camp when one is in earnest.3 His definition of camp as either high or low, however, is questionable, since an aspect of much camp is its satirizing of "serious," or "high," artistic concerns ...
Shannon Eileen Hengen, 1998
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Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies
TYLER's work, the first sustained discussion of homosexuality in movies, is less as an exploration of camp that an illustration of high camp style. Preening, bitchy, ardent, and even at times fastidiously earthy, the book's style encompasses a ...
Timothy Murphy, 2013
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Afoot and Afield: Reno-Tahoe: A Comprehensive Hiking Guide
The tram option from High Camp lets hikers avoid retracing their steps back to the trailhead. While taking the cable car will save a couple of miles of backtracking, you'll have to make the steep but short climb from Shirley Lake to High Camp.
Mike White, 2013
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Camps, Retreats, Missions, and Service Ideas
... them tough. As the camp nears its end, the clues can be made easier if no one has been able to guess correctly. Curt Finch. RAID. REGULATIOT. Nearly every junior and senior high camp or retreat will include one or more raids in which a ...
Youth Specialties, 1997
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Christopher Isherwood: His Era, His Gang, and the Legacy of ...
"What / mean by camp is something much more fundamental. You can call the other Low Camp, if you like; then what I'm talking about is High Camp. High Camp is the whole emotional basis of the ballet, for example, and of course Baroque art ...
David Garrett Izzo, 2001
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10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HIGH CAMP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term high camp is used in the context of the following news items.
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Youth work on fundamentals at Bulldogs' June 8-19 hoops clinic
The first session of the Ceres High camp was staged, June 8-12. "I went to the camp all four years in high school," said McClure, a 2007 Ceres ... «Ceres Courier, Jul 15»
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All cheered out: More than 100 children learn cheers at Mandeville …
All cheered out: More than 100 children learn cheers at Mandeville High Camp. Advocate photo by VERONICA DOMINACH -- Sarah Berning, ... «The New Orleans Advocate, Jul 15»
3
Warming up to Mount Baker: Seeking the summit and something more
Goofing around at high camp before the summit attempt, with the Easton and Squak glaciers in the background. Haze from nearby forest fires ... «Boulder Daily Camera, Jul 15»
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Ballet Apetrei to close 2014-15 season in Mandeville | St Tammany …
All cheered out: More than 100 children learn cheers at Mandeville High Camp. Jul 14, 2015 21:49. Advocate staff report. Photo provided by ... «The New Orleans Advocate, Jul 15»
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St. Tammany neighborhood briefs for July 15, 2015 - The New …
All cheered out: More than 100 children learn cheers at Mandeville High Camp. Jul 14, 2015 21:49. Advocate staff report. Photo provided by ... «The New Orleans Advocate, Jul 15»
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Hiking The Headwaters: Where The Sacramento Starts
... which almost immediately flows into the top mile of the Trinity River, just below where the river is formed at the confluence of High Camp and ... «KCET, Jul 15»
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Festival d'Aix-en-Provence Includes 'A Midsummer Night's Dream …
Miltos Yerolemou worked very hard to little real comic effect as Puck, and the third-act play-within-a-play rendered Shakespeare's high camp as ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Lima area sports calendar
The Junior High Camp for seventh- and eighth-graders will be from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. July 13-15 and the freshmen camp for ninth-graders will be ... «Lima Ohio, Jul 15»
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Hip Shot: Tammy Faye's Final Audition
See it if: You recall Tammy Faye's heyday and like high camp with a helping of real drama. Skip it if: You've never heard of Tammy Faye are too ... «Washington City Paper, Jul 15»
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Wayward Pines Review: “The Friendliest Place On Earth”
Where the show excels is in overwrought melodrama and high camp, and this week episode doubles down on both those factors. The only ... «Paste Magazine, Jul 15»

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