champaign

Cham·paign

 (shăm-pān′)

A city of east-central Illinois east-northeast of Springfield. Along with the adjoining town of Urbana, it is the site of the University of Illinois' largest campus (established 1867).

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cham·paign

 (shäm-pān′)

n.

A stretch of level and open country; a plain.

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[Middle English champain, from Old French champainge, from Late Latin campānia; see campaign.]

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cham·paign′ adj.

champaign

(ʃæmˈpeɪn)

n

1. (Physical Geography) Also called: campagna an expanse of open level or gently undulating country

2. (Military) an obsolete word for battlefield

[C14: from Old French champaigne, from Late Latin campānia; see campaign]

cham•paign

(ʃæmˈpeɪn)

n.

1. level, open country; plain.

2. Obs. a battlefield.

adj.

3. level and open: champaign fields.

[1350–1400; Middle English champai(g)ne < Middle French champa(i)gne < Latin campānia; see campaign]

Cham•paign

(ʃæmˈpeɪn)

n.

a city in E Illinois, adjoining Urbana. 59,150.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	champaign - extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth" plain, field flat - a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah" flood plain, floodplain - a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding dry land, ground, solid ground, terra firma, earth, land - the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground" llano - an extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America) moorland, moor - open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss peneplain, peneplane - a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements snowfield - a permanent wide expanse of snow steppe - extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia) tundra - a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen
	2.	Champaign - a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana IL, Illinois, Land of Lincoln, Prairie State - a midwestern state in north-central United States