Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Champaign"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Champaign \Cham*paign"\, n. [OF. champaigne; same word as
campagne.]
A flat, open country.
Fair champaign, with less rivers interveined. --Milton.
Through Apline vale or champaign wide. --Wordsworth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Champaign \Cham*paign"\, a.
Flat; open; level.
A wide, champaign country, filled with herds.
--Addison.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
2: a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana
[syn: {Champaign}]
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