Encampment

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Encampment, WY
    Zip code(s): 82325