Associations to the word «Champaign»

Wiktionary

CHAMPAIGN, noun. (geography) (archaic) Open countryside, or an area of open countryside.
CHAMPAIGN, noun. (obsolete) A battlefield.
CHAMPAIGN, adjective. Pertaining to open countryside; unforested, flat.

Dictionary definition

CHAMPAIGN, noun. Extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth".
CHAMPAIGN, noun. A university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana.

Wise words

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