Campfire
noun
An outdoor fire in a camp, used for cooking and keeping warm.
We roasted marshmallows over the campfire.
Often appears as...
- sit around a campfire
- make a campfire
noun
A meeting or a gathering near a fire in a camp.
They shared stories and songs at the campfire.
Often appears as...
- campfire gathering
- campfire meeting
noun
An outdoor fire in a camp, used for cooking and keeping warm.
We roasted marshmallows over the campfire.
Often appears as...
- sit around a campfire
- make a campfire
noun
A meeting or a gathering near a fire in a camp.
They shared stories and songs at the campfire.
Often appears as...
- campfire gathering
- campfire meeting
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Outdoor Activity
Used when describing outdoor or wilderness experiences, often associated with adventure.
Their campfire stories gave life to the starry night.
Pro Tip 2/3Survival Skill
Refers to the essential skill of making a fire outdoors which is vital in many survival situations.
Learning to start a campfire is an important survival skill.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Gathering
Implies a social or communal aspect, often an occasion for storytelling or bonding.
Families often bond over a nightly campfire.
Pro Tip 1/3Outdoor Activity
Used when describing outdoor or wilderness experiences, often associated with adventure.
Their campfire stories gave life to the starry night.
Pro Tip 2/3Survival Skill
Refers to the essential skill of making a fire outdoors which is vital in many survival situations.
Learning to start a campfire is an important survival skill.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Gathering
Implies a social or communal aspect, often an occasion for storytelling or bonding.
Families often bond over a nightly campfire.
Pro Tip 1/3Outdoor Activity
Used when describing outdoor or wilderness experiences, often associated with adventure.
Their campfire stories gave life to the starry night.
Pro Tip 2/3Survival Skill
Refers to the essential skill of making a fire outdoors which is vital in many survival situations.
Learning to start a campfire is an important survival skill.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Gathering
Implies a social or communal aspect, often an occasion for storytelling or bonding.
Families often bond over a nightly campfire.
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Jimmy Nelson: Gorgeous...
to say, "This is how I saw you. This is how I love you. This is how I respect you. What do you think? Am I right? Am I wrong?" So I wanted this debate. It was very, very, very emotional, and one night we were sitting around the campfire, and I have to be honest, I think I'd had a little bit too much to drink,
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A glimpse of the future...
we're also going to understand it much more deeply. Hence, touch to see. But it's not enough to experience things ourselves. We're inherently these social primates. And this leads me to our third guideline, the holographic campfire from our first story. Our mirror-neuron subsystem suggests
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Shonda Rhimes and Cyndi...
the idea that we all feel a compelling need to watch stories, to tell stories, to share stories -- sort of the gathering around the campfire to discuss the things that tell each one of us that we are not alone in the world. Those things to me are never going to change.
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The psychology of...
For example, the smell of a campfire could evoke the memory of being trapped in a burning house. For someone with PTSD, that memory activates the same neurochemical cascade as the original event. That then stirs up the same feelings of panic and helplessness
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The path to ending...
I think community is really important right now. With so many of us feeling trepidation, the weariness, the anger, the fear, the frustration, the terrorism that we've experienced in our communities. This is a time to huddle around a virtual campfire,
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How fire shapes...
campfire called a TED talk and let me tell you the story of fire on earth and of the keystone species that for good or ill has become the keeper of the planetary flame and how we've created a world with too much of the wrong kind of
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How Tough is the African...
inspire the most reverence and and actually fear as well but also it was often an animal that was at the heart of some of the best stories that i would listen to around the campfire at the foothills of mount kenya called
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We can help you master...
Imagine a typical It's after nightfall, the campfire is ablaze, an elder rises, eyes lock onto the wise, wrinkled face, and as the storyteller speaks, each listener imagines the events that are being described.
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Is fire a solid, a...
Sitting around a campfire, you can feel its heat, smell the woody smoke, and hear it crackle. If you get too close, it burns your eyes and stings your nostrils. You could stare at the bright flames forever
Video examples
The Okavango After Dark...
the campfire you can watch it for hours while listening to the wilderness thoughts and ideas float into an art of your mind at peace you feel alive
Video examples
Jimmy Nelson: Gorgeous...
to say, "This is how I saw you. This is how I love you. This is how I respect you. What do you think? Am I right? Am I wrong?" So I wanted this debate. It was very, very, very emotional, and one night we were sitting around the campfire, and I have to be honest, I think I'd had a little bit too much to drink,
Video examples
A glimpse of the future...
we're also going to understand it much more deeply. Hence, touch to see. But it's not enough to experience things ourselves. We're inherently these social primates. And this leads me to our third guideline, the holographic campfire from our first story. Our mirror-neuron subsystem suggests
Video examples
Shonda Rhimes and Cyndi...
the idea that we all feel a compelling need to watch stories, to tell stories, to share stories -- sort of the gathering around the campfire to discuss the things that tell each one of us that we are not alone in the world. Those things to me are never going to change.
Video examples
The psychology of...
For example, the smell of a campfire could evoke the memory of being trapped in a burning house. For someone with PTSD, that memory activates the same neurochemical cascade as the original event. That then stirs up the same feelings of panic and helplessness
Video examples
The path to ending...
I think community is really important right now. With so many of us feeling trepidation, the weariness, the anger, the fear, the frustration, the terrorism that we've experienced in our communities. This is a time to huddle around a virtual campfire,
Video examples
How fire shapes...
campfire called a TED talk and let me tell you the story of fire on earth and of the keystone species that for good or ill has become the keeper of the planetary flame and how we've created a world with too much of the wrong kind of
Video examples
How Tough is the African...
inspire the most reverence and and actually fear as well but also it was often an animal that was at the heart of some of the best stories that i would listen to around the campfire at the foothills of mount kenya called
Video examples
We can help you master...
Imagine a typical It's after nightfall, the campfire is ablaze, an elder rises, eyes lock onto the wise, wrinkled face, and as the storyteller speaks, each listener imagines the events that are being described.
Video examples
Is fire a solid, a...
Sitting around a campfire, you can feel its heat, smell the woody smoke, and hear it crackle. If you get too close, it burns your eyes and stings your nostrils. You could stare at the bright flames forever
Video examples
The Okavango After Dark...
the campfire you can watch it for hours while listening to the wilderness thoughts and ideas float into an art of your mind at peace you feel alive
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Matt Haig
British Novelist
I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and it makes it easier for a reader to go into a bookshop and choose, but as a writer, it helps to get rid of all of that and imagine you are a storyteller around a campfire.
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Donald E. Westlake
American Writer
I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.
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Helen Fisher
American Scientist
As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew.
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Taylor Goldsmith
American Musician
It's easy to look at kids sitting around a campfire looking at their phones and to think, 'What a shame.' But I think they're going to be more advanced in terms of communication than my generation.
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Gregory Harrison
American Actor
So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing.
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Jim James
American Musician
Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.
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Colin Trevorrow
American Director
I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!
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Randy Orton
American Wrestler
Having a campfire and roasted marshmallows, to me that sounds like Heaven.
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Gavin DeGraw
American Musician
I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.
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Linda Ellerbee
American Journalist
The new national campfire - radio.
Quote examples
Matt Haig
British Novelist
I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and it makes it easier for a reader to go into a bookshop and choose, but as a writer, it helps to get rid of all of that and imagine you are a storyteller around a campfire.
Quote examples
Donald E. Westlake
American Writer
I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.
Quote examples
Helen Fisher
American Scientist
As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew.
Quote examples
Taylor Goldsmith
American Musician
It's easy to look at kids sitting around a campfire looking at their phones and to think, 'What a shame.' But I think they're going to be more advanced in terms of communication than my generation.
Quote examples
Gregory Harrison
American Actor
So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing.
Quote examples
Jim James
American Musician
Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.
Quote examples
Colin Trevorrow
American Director
I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!
Quote examples
Randy Orton
American Wrestler
Having a campfire and roasted marshmallows, to me that sounds like Heaven.
Quote examples
Gavin DeGraw
American Musician
I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.
Quote examples
Linda Ellerbee
American Journalist
The new national campfire - radio.
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