CHAMPAIGN
Dictionary entry overview: What does Champaign mean?
• CHAMPAIGN (noun)
The noun CHAMPAIGN has 2 senses:
1. extensive tract of level open land
2. a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana
Familiarity information: CHAMPAIGN used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CHAMPAIGN (noun)
Meaning:
Extensive tract of level open land
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
champaign; plain; field
Context examples:
they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain / he longed for the fields of his youth
Hypernyms ("champaign" is a kind of...):
dry land; earth; ground; land; solid ground; terra firma (the solid part of the earth's surface)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "champaign"):
steppe (extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia))
snowfield (a permanent wide expanse of snow)
peneplain; peneplane (a more or less level land surface representing and advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements)
moor; moorland (open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss)
llano (an extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America))
flood plain; floodplain (a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding)
flat (a level tract of land)
tundra (a vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line)
Instance hyponyms:
Serengeti; Serengeti Plain (a vast plain in Tanzania west of the Great Rift Valley known for its wildlife)
Nullarbor Plain (a vast arid plain of southern Australia stretching inland from the Great Australian Bight; has sparse vegetation and no surface water and is almost uninhabited; the site of a major rocket research center)
Olympia (a plain in Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese; the chief sanctuary of Zeus and the site of the original Olympian Games)
Meaning:
A university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Champaign" is a part of...):
IL; Illinois; Land of Lincoln; Prairie State (a Midwest state in north-central United States)
