ENCAMPMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does encampment mean? 

• ENCAMPMENT (noun)
  The noun ENCAMPMENT has 3 senses:

1. a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent

2. temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers

3. the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp

  Familiarity information: ENCAMPMENT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCAMPMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A site where people on holiday can pitch a tent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

bivouac; campground; camping area; camping ground; camping site; campsite; encampment

Hypernyms ("encampment" is a kind of...):

land site; site (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bivouac; camp; cantonment; encampment

Context example:

wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling

Hypernyms ("encampment" is a kind of...):

military quarters (living quarters for personnel on a military post)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "encampment"):

boot camp (camp for training military recruits)

hutment (an encampment of huts (chiefly military))

laager; lager (a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of encamping and living in tents in a camp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bivouacking; camping; encampment; tenting

Hypernyms ("encampment" is a kind of...):

habitation; inhabitancy; inhabitation (the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men))

Derivation:

encamp (live in or as if in a tent)

 Context examples 

Lord John had been gazing curiously at a great tree-fern which overshadowed the encampment.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A dozen tethered horses and mules grazed around the encampment, while a number of archers lounged about: some shooting at marks, while others built up great wooden fires in the open, and hung their cooking kettles above them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For Jo sat on the grass, with an encampment of boys about her, and a dirty-footed dog reposing on the skirt of her state and festival dress, as she related one of Laurie's pranks to her admiring audience.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was the site of an old encampment, with several empty Chicago meat tins, a bottle labeled "Brandy," a broken tin-opener, and a quantity of other travelers' debris.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)