What is "camelot"

Camlet \Cam"let\, n. [F. camelot (akin to Sp. camelote, chamelote, It. cambellbito, ciambellotto, LL. camelotum, camelinum, fr. Ar. khamlat camlet, fr. kaml pile, plush. The word was early confused with camel, camel's hair also being used in making it. Cf. Calamanco] A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton. [Sometimes written camelot and camblet.]

Note: They have been made plain and twilled, of single warp and weft, of double warp, and sometimes with double weft also, with thicker yarn.
--Beck (Draper's Dict. )

a name first found in medieval French romances; it corresponds to Latin Camuladonum, the Roman forerunner of Colchester, which was an impressive ruin in the Middle Ages. But Malory identifies it with Winchester and Elizabethans tended to see it as Cadbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort near Glastonbury.

Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and, after the Lancelot-Grail cycle, eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's realm and a symbol of the Arthurian world. The stories locate it somewhere in Great Britain and sometimes associate it with real cities, though more usually its precise location is not revealed. Most scholars regard it as being entirely fictional, its geography being perfect for romance writers; Arthurian scholar Norris J. Lacy commented that "Camelot, located no where in particular, can be anywhere". Nevertheless, arguments about the location of the "real Camelot" have occurred since the 15th century and continue to rage today in popular works and for tourism purposes.

Camelot is a musical by Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music). It is based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T. H. White novel The Once and Future King.

The original 1960 production, directed by Moss Hart and orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett and Philip J. Lang, ran on Broadway for 873 performances, winning four Tony Awards and spawning several revivals, foreign productions, and the 1967 film Camelot. The original cast album was America's top-selling LP for 60 weeks. The musical has become associated with the Kennedy Administration, which is sometimes referred to as the Camelot era.

Camelot is the legendary stronghold of King Arthur.

Camelot may refer to:

• Camelot (musical), a Broadway musical based on the legend
  • Camelot (film), a 1967 film based on the musical
• Camelot (TV series), a 2011 television series
• "Camelot" (The Goodies), an episode of the British television series, The Goodies
• "Camelot" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the American-Canadian television series Stargate SG-1
• Camelot (board game), a strategy board game marketed by Parker Brothers, mainly in the early 20th century
• Camelot (video game), a 1989 video game for Acorn computers, published by Superior Software
• Camelot (horse), champion Irish racehorse
• Camelot (State College, Pennsylvania), a house listed on the National Register of Historic Places
• Camelot (hotel), the original name of The Edgewater, a hotel in Seattle
• Camelot (ward), an electoral ward in Somerset, England
• Camelot, Kirkham, a heritage-listed house in Australia

Camelot may also refer to:

• Camelot era, a nickname for the Kennedy Administration, stressing its glamorous, media-culture image
• Camelot Theme Park, a former theme park in Lancashire, England
• Camelot Ghana, a printing company in Ghana
• Camelot Group, operators of the National Lottery in the United Kingdom
• Camelot Property Management, a vacant property management firm started in the Netherlands
• Camelot Software Planning, a Japanese software publisher and developer
• SS Camelot, a ship owned by the British Ministry of Transport from 1965–1969
• BR standard class 5 73082 Camelot, a BR Standard Class 5 steam engine preserved on the Bluebell Railway
• Camlet, a woven fabric that may have originally been made of camel or goat hair
• Kamelot, an American power metal band with its name derived from the legend of Camelot
• Kaamelott, a French TV series re-interpreting the Arthurian legends in a humorous way
• Camelot, a document format that later became PDF
• Project Camelot, a 1960s U.S. government counterinsurgency study

Camelot is a 1967 American musical drama film directed by Joshua Logan and starring Richard Harris as King Arthur, Vanessa Redgrave as Guenevere, and Franco Nero as Lancelot. The film is an adaptation of the homonymous musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. Lerner also wrote the screenplay.

"Camelot" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies.

Written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie.

Camelot is an 8-bit computer game written by Tony Oakden and published in the UK in 1989/90 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. The game was first published by Superior Software and Acornsoft as part of the Play it Again Sam 9 compilation in 1989 and was subsequently re-published as a standalone title in 1990 by Superior Software and Blue Ribbon.

Camelot is a historic home located at State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania. It was built starting in 1922, and is a two-story rambling frame dwelling, covered with stucco and dressed in limestone. It features a roof that consists of a series of five main interconnecting gables with gable overhang. The house has a whimsical character and its setting suggests a scene from the English countryside.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Camelot is a strategy board game for two players. One of the first games published by Parker Brothers, it was invented late in the 19th century by George S. Parker and originally published under the name Chivalry.

The game (reduced in size and number of pieces, and reissued as "Camelot" in 1930) flourished through dozens of editions and numerous variants, achieving its greatest popularity in the 1930s, but remained in print through the late 1960s. In the 1980s, Parker Brothers briefly republished the game under the name Inside Moves. Since then the game has been out of print, but retains a core of fans who look forward to another revival.

Camelot is easily learned and without extensive praxis or theory, thus perhaps more accessible for novices to play and enjoy compared to either chess or checkers. The game is exceptionally tactical almost from the first move, and therefore quick to play to a conclusion.

A World Camelot Federation has been created, with free membership, led by Michael W. Nolan. The game was featured in issues of Abstract Games magazine.

Camelot is a 2011 historical-fantasy-drama television series which premiered on 1 April 2011. It was co-produced by the Starz cable network and GK-TV which began production during the summer of 2010. The series, based on the Arthurian legend, was produced by Graham King, Morgan O'Sullivan and Michael Hirst.

A special preview showing of the pilot episode "Homecoming" was aired on Starz Friday night, 25 February 2011. On 30 June 2011 Starz announced it was not going to order new seasons of Camelot, citing significant production challenges, predominantly scheduling conflicts with some members of the cast, including Joseph Fiennes, Jamie Campbell Bower and Eva Green.

Camelot (foaled 15 March 2009) is a British-bred, Irish-trained thoroughbred racehorse. He was one of the leading European two-year-olds of 2011 and won the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster. He was made the winter favourite for the 2000 Guineas and Epsom Derby. On his three-year-old debut, Camelot won the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket and followed up by winning the Derby at Epsom and the Irish Derby at the Curragh. His bid for the Triple Crown failed when he lost to Encke in the St Leger.

Camelot is an electoral ward of South Somerset District Council in Somerset, England. It is one of the wards that makes up the parliamentary constituency of Somerton and Frome.

Camelot covers an area of and in 2011 a population of 2,742 was recorded.

A rural ward, the A303 road passes through; it contains the villages of Marston Magna, Rimpton, Sparkford, Queen Camel, West Camel and Weston Bampfylde.

The ward is represented by one councillor, currently this is Michael Lewis, a member of the Conservative Party who was re-elected in the district elections of 2015, with 68% of the vote.

Camleot is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in Taurus-Littrow valley. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission, during EVA 2. Geology Station 5 was along the south rim of Camleot.

Camelot is due west of the landing site. The smaller Horatio crater is to the southwest, and Victory is to the northwest. Powell and Trident are to the southeast.

The crater was named by the astronauts after the castle Camelot of Arthurian legend.