campaign
/kæmˈpeɪn/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
noun
A series of play sessions using the same player characters, forming a continuous narrative.
noun
The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
Example Sentences
- "an election campaign"
- "a military campaign"
- "The company is targeting children in its latest advertising campaign."
- "He was given three days to campaign for the post of president in his school."
- "MILLER: Mr. President, I wonder if you could tell us about some of the audiences you talked to in the 1948 campaign? For instance, I think we'd all be curious about what was the smallest audience you had in the 1948 campaign? TRUMAN: Well, I'll- it'll sound as if I'm bragging about the 1948 campaign, but I never had an audience under five or ten thousand people in the whole series of trips which we took- about 31,700 miles on the train."
- "The Canaries went ahead when the home defence failed to clear their lines and Pilkington was on hand to slide in his eighth goal of the campaign."
Etymology
From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campania, campagna, and champagne.
Origin
- Source language: French