encampment | | |
n. (location) | 1. bivouac, campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment | 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" |
n. (artifact) | 2. bivouac, camp, cantonment, encampment | 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" |
n. (act) | 3. bivouacking, camping, encampment, tenting | 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" |
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