Champaign \Cham*paign"\, n. [OF. champaigne; same word as
   campagne.]
   A flat, open country.
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         Fair champaign, with less rivers interveined. --Milton.
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         Through Apline vale or champaign wide.   --Wordsworth.
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	Champaign \Cham*paign"\, a.
   Flat; open; level.
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         A wide, champaign country, filled with herds.
                                                  --Addison.
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	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, champaign]
    2: a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana

	

	65 Moby Thesaurus words for "champaign":
   alkali flat, alluvial plain, bailiwick, basin, bottomland,
   bushveld, campo, champaign country, coastal plain, delta, demesne,
   desert, domain, dominion, down, downs, fell, flat, flat country,
   flatland, flats, grass veld, grassland, heath, lande, level, llano,
   lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland,
   open country, pampa, pampas, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau,
   playa, prairie, province, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna,
   sebkha, sphere, steppe, table, tableland, terrain, territory,
   tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, walk, weald,
   wide-open spaces, wold

	

	Champaign -- U.S. County in Illinois
   Population (2000):    179669
   Housing Units (2000): 75280
   Land area (2000):     996.805938 sq. miles (2581.715418 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.726315 sq. miles (1.881148 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    997.532253 sq. miles (2583.596566 sq. km)
   Located within:       Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
   Location:             40.136824 N, 88.216752 W
   Headwords:
    Champaign
    Champaign, IL
    Champaign County
    Champaign County, IL

	

	Champaign -- U.S. County in Ohio
   Population (2000):    38890
   Housing Units (2000): 15890
   Land area (2000):     428.559933 sq. miles (1109.965084 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    1.146319 sq. miles (2.968952 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    429.706252 sq. miles (1112.934036 sq. km)
   Located within:       Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
   Location:             40.127656 N, 83.770972 W
   Headwords:
    Champaign
    Champaign, OH
    Champaign County
    Champaign County, OH

	

	Champaign, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois
   Population (2000):    67518
   Housing Units (2000): 28556
   Land area (2000):     16.987175 sq. miles (43.996580 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.022970 sq. miles (0.059492 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    17.010145 sq. miles (44.056072 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            12385
   Located within:       Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
   Location:             40.112981 N, 88.261227 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     61820 61821
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Champaign, IL
    Champaign