champaign Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun extensive tract of level open land
    plain; field.
    • they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain
    • he longed for the fields of his youth
  2. noun a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana

WordNet

Cham*paign" noun
Etymology
OF. champaigne; same word as campagne.
Definitions
  1. A flat, open country.
    Fair champaign, with less rivers interveined. Milton.
    Through Apline vale or champaign wide. Wordsworth.
Cham*paign" adjective
Definitions
  1. Flat; open; level.
    A wide, champaign country, filled with herds. Addison.

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