Champaign
adj, name, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Open countryside, or an area of open countryside. archaic
"Thenne ſyre Gawayne was ſore greued with theſe wordes / and pulled oute his ſwerd and ſmote of his hede / And therwith torned theyr horſes and rode ouer waters and thurgh woodes tyl they came to theyre buſſhement / where as ſyr Lyonel and ſyr Bedeuer were houyng / The romayns folowed faſt after on horſbak and on foote ouer a chãpayn vnto a wood […]"
- 2 extensive tract of level open land wordnet
- 3 A battlefield. obsolete
- 1 Pertaining to open countryside; unforested, flat.
"They are ſeated alongſt the ſea-coaſt, encompaſſed toward the land with huge and ſteepie mountains, having betweene both, a hundred leagues or there abouts of open and champaine ground."
- 1 A city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.
Example
More examples"Thenne ſyre Gawayne was ſore greued with theſe wordes / and pulled oute his ſwerd and ſmote of his hede / And therwith torned theyr horſes and rode ouer waters and thurgh woodes tyl they came to theyre buſſhement / where as ſyr Lyonel and ſyr Bedeuer were houyng / The romayns folowed faſt after on horſbak and on foote ouer a chãpayn vnto a wood […]"
Etymology
From Old French champaigne, from Late Latin campānia.
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