🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

campagne

Pronunciation / Transliteration: campagne

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Campaign/kæmˈpeɪn/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #850 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Le gouvernement a lancé une nouvelle campagne de sécurité routière."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A series of military operations intended to achieve a particular objective, or a planned set of activities to achieve a social, commercial, or political goal.

    "The charity launched a major campaign to raise awareness about mental health."
As verb
  1. 1

    To work in an organized and active way toward a particular goal, typically a political or social one.

    "Activists are campaigning against the construction of the new highway."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the French word campagne, ultimately from the Latin campania meaning 'open country' or 'field', referring originally to military operations conducted in an open field. Over centuries, the term evolved semantically to encompass organized series of operations, commercial advertisements, and crucially, political electoral races such as jìngxuǎn.

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