campear

From campo +‎ -ear.

• Hyphenation: cam‧pe‧ar

campear (first-person singular present campeio, first-person singular preterite campeei, past participle campeado)

1. to camp

   Synonym: acampar

2. to battle, to war, to fight

   Synonyms: batalhar, guerrear, lutar

3. (Brazil) to ride a horse, especially over fields to help taking care of livestock

   Synonym: campeirar

4. (Brazil) to display, to flaunt

   Synonyms: ostentar, alardear, blasonar, exibir

5. (transitive, dialectal, chiefly Southern Brazil) to look for, to search

   Synonym: procurar

From campo +‎ -ear.

• IPA^(key): /kampeˈaɾ/ [kãm.peˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cam‧pe‧ar

campear (first-person singular present campeo, first-person singular preterite campeé, past participle campeado)

1. (agriculture) to graze
2. (agriculture) to work the fields
3. (agriculture) to guard the fields
4. (military) to reconnoitre
5. to park
6. to stand out
7. (video games) to camp (to stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning point or in order to guard an area)

• “campear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024