champaign

5 definitions found

champaign - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Champaign \Cham*paign"\, n. [OF. champaigne; same word as
     campagne.]
     A flat, open country.
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           Fair champaign, with less rivers interveined. --Milton.
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           Through Apline vale or champaign wide.   --Wordsworth.
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  Champaign \Cham*paign"\, a.
     Flat; open; level.
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           A wide, champaign country, filled with herds.
                                                    --Addison.
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champaign - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  champaign
      n 1: extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the
           woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of
           his youth" [syn: plain, field, champaign]
      2: a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana

champaign - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Champaign, IL (city, FIPS 12385)
    Location: 40.11300 N, 88.26495 W
    Population (1990): 63502 (25996 housing units)
    Area: 33.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 61820, 61821

champaign - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "champaign":
     alkali flat, alluvial plain, bailiwick, basin, bottomland,
     bushveld, campo, champaign country, coastal plain, delta, demesne,
     desert, domain, dominion, down, downs, fell, flat, flat country,
     flatland, flats, grass veld, grassland, heath, lande, level, llano,
     lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland,
     open country, pampa, pampas, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau,
     playa, prairie, province, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna,
     sebkha, sphere, steppe, table, tableland, terrain, territory,
     tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, walk, weald,
     wide-open spaces, wold