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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
campfire
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Never leave a campfire unattended.
▪ That night we sat around the campfire telling stories.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His prey is the charred remnants of a campfire set along a trail in the heart of this tinder-dry wilderness area.
▪ I enjoy putting up a tent, I like campfires and food for me tastes so much better outside.
▪ In the Tonto and Coronado forests, no campfires are allowed.
▪ Last week, two community newspapers in Howard County ran front-page, color photographs of a naked man tending a campfire.
▪ Saturday night was capped by a ranger program, goodies and campfire stories.
▪ She lay down on the grass by our campfire pit.
▪ Smoke snaked up from a campfire amidst crudely plastered and thatched huts.
▪ We were taken on nature hikes and told stories as we sat by campfires.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
campfire

also camp-fire, 1835, from camp (n.) + fire (n.).

Wiktionary
campfire

n. fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing.

WordNet
campfire

n. a small outdoor fire for warmth or cooking (as at a camp)

Wikipedia
Campfire

A campfire is a fire at a campsite that provides light and warmth, and heat for cooking. It can also serve as a beacon, and an insect and predator deterrent. Established campgrounds often provide a stone or steel fire ring for safety. Campfires are a popular feature of camping.

Campfire (disambiguation)

A campfire is a fire lit at a campsite.

Campfire may also refer to:

  • Camp Fire, a youth organization
  • Campfire (horse), an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse
  • Campfire (film) or Medurat Hashevet, a 2004 Israeli film
  • Campfire (software), a web-based, business-oriented online chat service by 37signals
  • Campfire (crowd funding), a Japanese website where users can raise funds for creative projects via crowd funding
  • Campfire (video game), a cancelled 2004 survival horror video game.
  • CAMPFIRE, the Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources, a Zimbabwean Community Based Natural Resource Management programme
  • Digital Campfire, a platform around which digital tribes gather.
Campfire (film)

Campfire (lit. Tribal Campfire) is an Israeli movie released in 2004, written and directed by Joseph Cedar. The film was won five Israeli Academy Awards and became Israel's official submission for the 77th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category, however, the film did not succeed in receiving a nomination. The film was well received in Israel, the United States, and in international film festivals.

Campfire (horse)

Campfire (1914–1932) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

Campfire (album)

Campfire is the third album by the folk-rock worship band Rend Collective. The album was released on January 29, 2013 by Integrity Music and Columbia Records.

Usage examples of "campfire".

They rode out past the pickets and campfires of Cambridge and at Framingham stopped to see for themselves the guns from Ticonderoga, Adams making careful note of the inventory--58 cannon ranging in size from 3- and 4-pounders to one giant 24-pounder that weighed more than two tons.

Space and Prinz squatted near the campfire, too excited to drinking balche, the Mayan drink compound of bark and honey fermented in water, and they were slightly intoxicated.

They set camp in a clearing up above the bogland and skeletal trees that marked the region of Tymwyvenne, taking little care to conceal their campfire.

I cooked those cobia steaks over a campfire with corn oil, butter, and lemon juice, and that became the first recipe I ever sold to a newspaper.

Haltingly she began to sing it, her voice reflected in the gentle crackling of the campfire, the pulsing of the flames that licked the blade of Daystar Clarion.

Here I am, I thought, sitting in the dark with strangers, laughing out loud at cowboys farting around a campfire.

He had written a song for them to sing together at the great bonfire, and he had drawn her aside, away from the clustered campfires, to practice its intricate harmonies and rhythms.

It was campfire stories, it was ghost tales around the hostel fires in deep winter: other riders had objected just to the telling of the story with the horses at hand.

What a fine story this will make, told around every campfire between Hurria and Egypt.

He could see Jiggers hobbling around the campfire, starting breakfast.

August campfire, he and Majid had talked to bin Laden and Zawahiri about the global struggle against imperialists and crusaders, of how they are all guided by the will of Allah, how the coming months would be days of great change and excitement.

He included the campfires started with a gesture, Blue Wing, the slaying of Slaney, the tricking of Orthal, and the freeing of the captive women, ending with the organizing of the company and its training.

Threading quickly through a confusing maze of tents and flickering campfires, Picardy was acutely aware of the curious stares that traced her steps.

I took in a number of Nomad Campfires --in Detroit, they burned scrap lumber-- and listened to stories of pirates and Road Runners and feuds and radical rigs, threads in the fabric of Nomad lore.

It was a constant irritation to her, like a burr under a saddlecloth, and her only consolation was the embroidered shawl that Lilanthe had given her, which she wrapped around her shoulders every night as they sat round the campfire talking and singing.