1.
[syn: plain, field, champaign]
2. a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Champaign \Cham*paign"\, n. [OF. champaigne; same word as
campagne.]
A flat, open country.
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Fair champaign, with less rivers interveined. --Milton.
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Through Apline vale or champaign wide. --Wordsworth.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Champaign \Cham*paign"\, a.
Flat; open; level.
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A wide, champaign country, filled with herds.
--Addison.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
champaign
n 1: extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the
woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of
his youth" [syn: plain, field, champaign]
2: a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana