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Campaign vs Champaign - What's the difference?

campaign | champaign |

In obsolete terms the difference between campaign and champaign

is that campaign is an open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign while champaign is a battlefield.

As nouns the difference between campaign and champaign

is that campaign is a series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal while champaign is open countryside, or an area of open countryside.

As a verb campaign

is to take part in a campaign.

As an adjective champaign is

pertaining to open countryside; unforested, flat.

campaign

English

(wikipedia campaign)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
    • an election campaign'''; a military '''campaign
    The company is targeting children in their latest advertising campaign .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 9 , author=Mandeep Sanghera , title=Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Canaries went ahead when the home defence failed to clear their lines and Pilkington was on hand to slide in his eighth goal of the campaign .}}
  • (obsolete) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
    • (Grath)
  • The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.

    • Derived terms

    * advertising campaign * election campaign * military campaign * political campaign * rumor campaign * whisper campaign

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take part in a campaign.
    • She campaigned for better social security.
    * {{quote-news , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.}}

    champaign

    English

    Alternative forms

    * champeyne * champaine * champain

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geography, archaic) Open countryside, or an area of open countryside.
  • *:
  • *: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 ch?payn vnto a wood
  • *1605 , William Shakespeare, King Lear , I.i:
  • *:Of all these bounds even from this line to this, / With shadowy forests and with champaigns riched, / With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads, / We make thee lady.
  • *, II.ii.3:
  • *:So Segrave in Leicestershireis sited in a champaign at the edge of the wolds, and more barren than the villages about it, yet no place likely yields a better air.
  • (obsolete) A battlefield.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to open countryside; unforested, flat.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.206:
    • They are seated alongst the sea-coast, encompassed toward the land with huge and steepie mountains, having betweene both, a hundred leagues or thereabouts of open and champaine ground.

    Related terms

    * champagne