Encampment \En*camp"ment\, n.
1. The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army
or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.
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2. The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp;
tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.
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A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient
for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans.
--Gibbon.
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A green encampment yonder meets the eye. --Guardian.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
encampment
n 1: a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent [syn: campsite,
campground, camping site, camping ground, bivouac,
camping area]
2: temporary living quarters specially built by the army for
soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were
grumbling" [syn: camp, cantonment, bivouac]
3: the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp [syn: camping,
bivouacking, tenting]
WordNet (r) 2.0
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "encampment":
Konzentrationslager, Lager, barrack, barracks, bivouac,
bivouacking, camp, campground, camping, campsite, cantonment,
casern, concentration camp, detention camp, hobo jungle, lines,
tented field, tenting
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Encampment, WY
Zip code(s): 82325
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
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