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encampment

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en·camp·ment  (n-kmpmnt)
n.
1.
a. The act of encamping.
b. The state of being encamped.
2. A camp; a campsite.
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Noun1.encampmentencampment - a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
land site, site - the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school"
2.encampmentencampment - temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
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
military quarters - living quarters for personnel on a military post
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
3.encampmentencampment - the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp
inhabitancy, inhabitation, habitation - the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men); "he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony"

encampment
noun camp, base, post, station, quarters, campsite, bivouac, camping ground, cantonment
Translations
Spanish encampment [ɪnˈkæmpmənt] ncampamento
French encampment [ɪnˈkæmpmənt] ncampement m
German encampment [ɪnˈkæmpmənt] nLager nt
Italian encampment [ɪnˈkæmpmənt] naccampamento

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As he passed towards the little encampment of the emigrants, for such the place had now become, he heard the voice of the leader calling aloud, in its hoarse tones, the name of--
Took me, too; took the colonels, the captains, the women, the children, and the dumb brutes; took Buffalo Bill, and all his scouts; took the garrison - to the last man; and in forty-eight hours the Indian encampment was hers, illustrious old Thunder-Bird and all.
On the afternoon of the fifth day they halted, and made their simple encampment nearly an hour before sunset.
 
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