• IPA: /ˈtʃæmpeɪn/

champaign (plural champaigns)

1. (geography, archaic) open#Adjective|Open countryside, or an area of open countryside.
   • [a. 1472, Thomas Malory, “Capitulum Sextum”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V (in Middle English), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786 ↗, leaves 85, recto – 85, verso; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: Published by David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034 ↗, pages 169–170 ↗:

     Thenne ſyre Gawayne was ſore greued with theſe wordes / and pulled oute his ſwerd and ſmote of his hede / And therwith torned theyr horſes and rode ouer waters and thurgh woodes tyl they came to theyre buſſhement / where as ſyr Lyonel and ſyr Bedeuer were houyng / The romayns folowed faſt after on horſbak and on foote ouer a chāpayn vnto a wood [...]

     Then Sir Gawain was sore grieved with these words / and pulled out his sword and smote of his head / And therewith turned their horses and rode over waters and through woods till they came to their bushment / where as Sir Lionel and Sir Bedivere were hoving / The Romans followed fast after on horseback and on foot over a champaign unto a wood [...]]

   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i], page 283 ↗, column 2:

     Of all theſe bounds euen from this Line, to this, / With ſhadowie Forreſts, and with Champains rich'd / With plenteous Riuers, and wide-ſkirted Meades / We make thee Lady.

   • 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Ayre Rectified. With a Digression of the Ayre.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed [by Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, OCLC 932915040 ↗, partition 2, section 2, member 3, page 261 ↗:

     So Segrave in Leiceſterſhire (which Towne I am now bound to remember) is ſited in a Champain, at the edge of the Wolds, and more barren than the villages about it, yet no place likely yeelds a better aire.

2. (obsolete) A battlefield.

• Russian: открытый

• Russian: по́ле битва

champaign

1. Pertaining to open#Adjective|open countryside; unforested, flat#Adjective|flat.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of the Caniballes”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗, page 102 ↗:

     They are ſeated alongſt the ſea-coaſt, encompaſſed toward the land with huge and ſteepie mountains, having betweene both, a hundred leagues or there abouts of open and champaine ground.

• champagne

• IPA: /ˌʃæmˈpeɪn/

1. A city in Champaign County, Illinois.