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CHAMPAIGN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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; Ill.; Illinois; Land of Lincoln; Prairie State (a midwestern state in north-central United States)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Extensive tract of level open land
Example:
he longed for the fields of his youth
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
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"):
flat (a level tract of land)
flood plain; floodplain (a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding)
llano (an extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America))
moor; moorland (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)
Instance hyponyms:
Olympia (a plain in Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese; the chief sanctuary of Zeus and the site of the original Olympian Games)
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)
Serengeti; Serengeti Plain (a vast plain in Tanzania to the west of the Great Rift Valley known for its wildlife)
