Search Result for "encampment":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (3)
1. a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent;
[syn: campsite, campground, camping site, camping ground, bivouac, encampment, camping area]
2. temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers;
- Example: "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
[syn: camp, encampment, cantonment, bivouac]
3. the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp;
[syn: camping, encampment, bivouacking, tenting]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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. [1913 Webster] 2. The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings. [1913 Webster] A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans. --Gibbon. [1913 Webster] A green encampment yonder meets the eye. --Guardian. [1913 Webster]U.S. Gazetteer (1990):
Encampment, WY Zip code(s): 82325Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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
