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Antonyms for campaigns

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : kam-peyn
Phonetic Transcription : kæmˈpeɪn

Definition of campaigns

Origin :
  • 1640s, "operation of an army in the field," from French campagne "campaign," literally "open country," from Old French champagne "countryside, open country" (suited to military maneuvers), from Late Latin campania "level country" (source of Italian campagna, Spanish campaña, Portuguese campanha), from Latin campus "a field" (see campus). Old armies spent winters in quarters and took to the "open field" to seek battle in summer. Extension of meaning from military to political is American English, 1809.
  • noun attempt to win; attack
  • verb attempt to win political election
Example sentences :
  • They belonged to the times when 30,000 men were an army, and when campaigns were spent in sieges.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • The campaigns of Napoleon, with their atmosphere of glory, illustrate this.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
  • Among them was one which had been out in the campaigns of 1689 (Dundee's), 1715 (Mar's), and in 1745-6.
  • Extract from : « The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1876 » by Various
  • I subdued them in campaigns in which you took their side in opposition to myself.
  • Extract from : « Hellenica » by Xenophon
  • Maghazi, 38, 187 (accounts of the Campaigns of Mohammad), xliv.
  • Extract from : « A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihd' » by Moulavi Gergh Ali
  • She had met indifference and ridicule in her campaigns for woman's rights.
  • Extract from : « Susan B. Anthony » by Alma Lutz
  • He waged war on all sides, and carried on his campaigns for many years.
  • Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow
  • From them the historian could almost reconstruct the campaigns (p. 038) of the war.
  • Extract from : « The Emma Gees » by Herbert Wes McBride
  • He at once inaugurated two campaigns to be carried on at once.
  • Extract from : « Hidden Treasures » by Harry A. Lewis
  • In conception and execution it was equal to any of Napoleon's campaigns.
  • Extract from : « The Land We Live In » by Henry Mann

Synonyms for campaigns

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