ENCAMP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does encamp mean? 

• ENCAMP (verb)
  The verb ENCAMP has 1 sense:

1. live in or as if in a tent

  Familiarity information: ENCAMP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCAMP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they encamp    ... he / she / it encamps   
Past simple: encamped   
Past participle: encamped   
-ing form: encamping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Live in or as if in a tent

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

bivouac; camp; camp out; encamp; tent

Context example:

The houseguests had to camp in the living room

Hypernyms (to "encamp" is one way to...):

dwell; inhabit; live; populate (be an inhabitant of or reside in)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

encampment (the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp)

 Context examples 

We have found traces which show that a party of gypsies encamped on Monday night within a mile of the spot where the murder took place.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No, sir, I did not; but during the week that we lay encamped at the base of the cliff we heard some very strange noises from above.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They are going to be encamped near Brighton; and I do so want papa to take us all there for the summer!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A band of Szgany have come to the castle, and are encamped in the courtyard.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Laurie and his friends gallantly threw themselves into the breach, bought up the bouquets, encamped before the table, and made that corner the liveliest spot in the room.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Spies had been sent out in the morning, and returned after nightfall to say that the King of Spain was encamped some fourteen miles off in the direction of Burgos, having with him twenty thousand horse and forty-five thousand foot.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With these possessions we encamped, as it were, in the two parlours of the emptied house in Windsor Terrace; Mrs. Micawber, the children, the Orfling, and myself; and lived in those rooms night and day.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whilst the council was sitting in Pampeluna the White Company, having encamped in a neighboring valley, close to the companies of La Nuit and of Black Ortingo, were amusing themselves with sword-play, wrestling, and shooting at the shields, which they had placed upon the hillside to serve them as butts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the Thursday morning the whole army was encamped in the Vale of Pampeluna, and the prince had called his council to meet him in the old palace of the ancient city of Navarre.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)