CHAMPAIGN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Champaign mean? 

• CHAMPAIGN (noun)
  The noun CHAMPAIGN has 2 senses:

1. extensive tract of level open land

2. a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana

  Familiarity information: CHAMPAIGN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAMPAIGN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extensive tract of level open land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

champaign; field; plain

Context example:

he longed for the fields of his youth

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)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

Scientists of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign show that using biofuel corn doesn't completely offset the environmental effects of producing that corn.

(Corn better used as food than biofuel, National Science Foundation)

Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, created a remote controlled, next-generation tissue implant that allows neuroscientists to inject drugs and shine lights on neurons deep inside the brains of mice.

(Futuristic brain probe allows for wireless control of neurons, NIH)