camp mother
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.66 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of Camp Mother.
noun
A woman in charge of housekeeping tasks in a camp.
noun
A woman who took on the role of adoptive mother to a motherless girl in a concentration camp.
noun
A woman employed to look after the youngest children at a summer camp.
noun
A woman in charge of housekeeping and the supervision of campers at a summer camp.
Example Sentences
- "The choice of the Aloha Camps was a happy one; but Mrs. Gulick should be designated as camp director instead of camp mother. Camp mother is used to designate the person in charge of midgets at a boys' camp."
- "A camp mother, who is introduced during registration, has been found a real asset in Massachusetts. She answers questions, solves small difficulties, and is especially in demand in mixed camps."
- "I would tell the camp mother, on my way out, so she would take charge while I was away."
- "Here we were met by a rugged individual in khaki shorts and football jersey who introduced herself as Panther-in-Chief, the camp mother to whom we could go with all our troubles."
- "I mean people that wanted to drum all day and people were trying to have conversations about stuff that had importance to what was going on politically, and so there was an ongoing sense for me of a kind of young and restless energy, and that without people like Jean McLaren, who was camp mother basically for the whole summer, it wouldn't have been anything like as successful as it was."
- "The camp mother managed to keep the stomachs full and the beds in tip-top shape."