Encampment

Quick meaning: Encampment is a noun meaning A place where people or things stay temporarily.

Meaning

A place where people or things stay temporarily.

More Meanings

1. An enclosed or fortified prehistoric site, especially a European Iron Age hill-fort.
2. A meeting of Freemasons.
3. (uncountable) The act of encamping or setting up a camp; also, the state of being encamped or in a camp.
4. A place where people (such as displaced people, soldiers, or travellers) encamp, that is, stay in tents or other temporary structures; a camp or campsite.
5. A meeting (especially an annual meeting or important conference) of an outdoorsy group of people, such as military veterans or scouts of the scouting movement.

Example Sentences

In Mississippi, Tom turned an encampment of do-gooder burners into an organization he dubbed Burners Without Borders.

[F]rom the fate of vvar they vvere once more obliged to forſake culture for encampment, the ſvveets of rural life for their ſhocks of battle.

This was an ancient lobster's house, / A lobster of prodigious nous, / So old that barnacles had spread / Their white encampments o'er its head,— […]

Shortly after leaving the station, the train passes the site of a small halt, built in August, 1889, to serve a large army encampment situated nearby.

Word Forms

• encampments

Synonyms for encampment

Depending on context, synonyms include camp, bivouac, cantonment, campsite, camping, campground.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include campground, campsite, camping, camp, bivouac, tenting.

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