Campfire definition

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An outdoor fire in a camp, used for cooking or warmth.

Sat around the campfire, telling scary stories.

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A meeting held around such a fire.
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An outdoor fire at a campsite.
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A social gathering around such a fire.
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Fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing.
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Singular:
campfire
Plural:
campfires

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Campfire Sentence Examples

  • Having no way to refuse, she followed him to the campfire of their host.

  • A huge campfire was blazing brightly in the midst of the snow, lighting up the branches of trees heavy with hoarfrost.

  • After the second day's march Pierre, having examined his feet by the campfire, thought it would be impossible to walk on them; but when everybody got up he went along, limping, and, when he had warmed up, walked without feeling the pain, though at night his feet were more terrible to look at than before.

  • From a campfire a hundred paces off came a sound of general, merry laughter.

  • Someone had a campfire and it looked as if the door on the mine was used for fire wood.

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