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Camelot
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camelot
English
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Etymology
First attested in en fro - as fro Camaalot in en Chrétien de Troyes' en Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart. In the US politics sense a reference to the contemporary musical Camelot (musical) Camelot (1960), associated with the Kennedy era.
Pronunciation
en /ˈkæm.əˌlɒt/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Camelot.wav Southern England
en /ˈkæm.əˌlɑt/ [ˈkɛəm.əˌlɑt] US,CA
en /ˈkæm.əˌlɔt/ AU
Proper noun
en Mythological locations en Arthurian mythology en mythical location cc/England and the en stronghold of en King Arthur in the en Arthurian en legend.
en US politics The administration and surrounding mystique of President en John F. Kennedy.
en Jacindamania Trudeaumania
en-US w:Ross Douthat w:Marc Andreessen How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump’s Arms The New York Times 2025-01-17 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opinion/marc-andreessen-trump-silicon-valley.html 0362-4331 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260219233812/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opinion/marc-andreessen-trump-silicon-valley.html 19 February 2026
Derived terms
en Camelotian
Translations
the stronghold of King Arthur
Esperanto: eo Kameloto
French: fr Camelot
Middle French: frm Camalot
Old French: fro Camaalot
Polish: pl Camelot m-in
Portuguese: pt Camelot f
Spanish: es Camelot
See also
en Camulodunum camelot Camulus Camulos
Further reading
en
en Fictional locations Arthurian mythology
French
fr:
Etymology
fr frm Camalot, from fr fro Camaalot.
Pronunciation
+ [t:t_]
Proper noun
fr Mythological locations fr Arthurian mythology en Camelot
See also
fr camelot
Spanish
es:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m
es Mythological locations es Arthurian _ mythology en Camelot