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champaign
/ˈʃæmpeɪn/
noun 2adj 1name 1
Collocations
2ADJ.
agricultural, outside
CHAMPAIGN + NOUN
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Definitions
noun
1
Open countryside, or an area of open countryside.
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 […]
Of all theſe bounds euen from this Line, to this, / With ſhadowie Forreſts, and with Champains rich'd / With plenteous Riuers, and wide-ſkirted Meades / We make thee Lady.
2
A battlefield.
adj
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.
A fine champagne country, well stored with corn.
name
1
A city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.
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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 theyr
Wiktionary02
Of all theſe bounds euen from this Line, to this, / With ſhadowie Forreſts, and with Champains rich'd / With plenteous Riuers, and wide-ſkirted Meades / We make thee Lady.
Wiktionary03
So Segrave in Leiceſterſhire (which Towne I am now bound to remember) is ſited in a Champain, at the edge of the Wolds, and more barren than the villages about it, yet no place likely yeelds a better
Wiktionary04
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.
Wiktionary05
A fine champagne country, well stored with corn.
Wiktionary06
In England mobility was taken for granted, at least outside the champaign agricultural areas.
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