Camelot en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkæm.əˌlɒt/ (UK)
- [ˈkɛəm.əˌlɑt] (Canada, US)
- /ˈkæm.əˌlɑt/ (Canada, US)
- /ˈkæm.əˌlɔt/ (Australia)
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Etymology
First attested in Old French as Camaalot in Chrétien de Troyes' Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart. In the US politics sense a reference to the contemporary musical Camelot (1960), associated with the Kennedy era.
Meanings
- (qualifier:Arthurian legend) A mythical location in England and the stronghold of King Arthur in the Arthurian legend.
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(US) The administration and surrounding mystique of President John F. Kennedy.
Of course you want to fund all these programs, and you want to fund all these activist campaigns. Of course you want that. The term “Camelot” was never used, but there was a Camelot feeling to it at the time that people must have felt in the early ’60s in the same way.
2025 January 17, Ross Douthat, quoting Marc Andreessen, “How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump’s Arms”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
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camelot · Camulodunum · Camulus · Camulos
Translations (7)
fr Camelot (the stronghold of King Arthur) · pt Camelot (the stronghold of King Arthur) · frm Camalot (the stronghold of King Arthur) · eo Kameloto (the stronghold of King Arthur) · pl Camelot (the stronghold of King Arthur) · es Camelot (the stronghold of King Arthur) · fro Camaalot (the stronghold of King Arthur)
wikipedia: Camelot (musical) · wikipedia: en:Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart · wikipedia: en:Chrétien de Troyes