champaign
/ˈʃæmpeɪn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.08 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to open countryside; unforested, flat.
name
A city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.
Example Sentences
- "Thenne ſyre Gawayne was ſore greued with theſe wordes / and pulled oute his ſwerd and ſmote of his hede / And therwith torned theyr horſes and rode ouer waters and thurgh woodes tyl they came to theyre buſſhement / where as ſyr Lyonel and ſyr Bedeuer were houyng / The romayns folowed faſt after on horſbak and on foote ouer a chãpayn vnto a wood […]"
- "Of all theſe bounds euen from this Line, to this, / With ſhadowie Forreſts, and with Champains rich'd / With plenteous Riuers, and wide-ſkirted Meades / We make thee Lady."
- "So Segrave in Leiceſterſhire (which Towne I am now bound to remember) is ſited in a Champain, at the edge of the Wolds, and more barren than the villages about it, yet no place likely yeelds a better aire."
- "Where the Red Lion ſtaring o'er the way, / Invites each paſſing ſtranger that can pay; / Where Calvert’s butt, and Parſon’s black champaign, / Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury-lane; […]"
- "[…] unthinking whether some grim fate were poised hawkwise above the level champaign of his life, or some dark storm of sorrow brewing on its calm horizon."
- "They are ſeated alongſt the ſea-coaſt, encompaſſed toward the land with huge and ſteepie mountains, having betweene both, a hundred leagues or there abouts of open and champaine ground."
Etymology
From Old French champaigne, from Late Latin campānia.
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
- Root: champaigne, campānia
Usage
Inflected Forms
champaigns (plural)
champeyne (alternative)
champaine (alternative)
champagne (alternative)
champain (alternative)
more champaign (comparative)
most champaign (superlative)