Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. (context British English) An enclosed resort providing accommodation (often in chalets) and entertainment, generally aimed at families.
Wikipedia
A holiday camp is a type of holiday accommodation that encourages holidaymakers to stay within the site boundary and provides entertainment for them between meals. Today, the term has fallen out of favour with terms such as resort or holiday village replacing it.
As distinct from camping, accommodation typically consisted of chalets, accommodation buildings arranged individually or in blocks. From the 1960s onward, many camps also added static caravan accommodation, and today, many static caravans are also termed holiday camps.
Holiday Camp is a 1947 British comedy drama film directed by Ken Annakin, starring Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Kathleen Harrison and Dennis Price set at the then popular Butlin's holiday camps.
Usage examples of "holiday camp".
She'd go and nobody on earth would stop her, not even Miles Manning himself, and here at the Blue Ocean Holiday Camp he was the nearest thing to God you'd find.
Perhaps she had managed to persuade them that she didn't want to be part of some big holiday camp with them all.
The Japs made it sound like them blokes were going to a holiday camp for retired soldiers.
Albania was a sort of holiday camp without any amenities, and we assumed that these orders had the sole purpose of attempting to keep us busy and were of no serious import.
On 13 August 1984 a report came from Moscow headlined, FROZEN GAS METEORITE HITS RUSSIAN HOLIDAY CAMP.
The thought of the hot, dusty streets of London made Thorby seem for a brief period a holiday camp.
If I were Sir Billy Butlin looking for the site for my latest holiday camp, I wouldn't have spent too much time on Carrara Point.