Other forms: campfires
A campfire is an open fire built at a camp. Sit round the campfire, light a campfire, campfire stories.
Many places ban them outright in dry seasons, and the rule that matters is drowning it rather than burying it — buried embers stay hot for days and start fires. Sitting round one is the oldest social arrangement there is.
1nouncampfireAn open fire built at a camp.
“We sat around the campfire telling ghost stories.”
campfire is a fire.
Camp plus fire. Camp comes from Latin campus, a field, by way of the military camp pitched in one.
From camp + fire.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA