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Champaign - What does it mean?

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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.

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