Hypertext Webster Gateway: "encampment"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp;
tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.
A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient
for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans.
--Gibbon.
A green encampment yonder meets the eye. --Guardian.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
encampment
n 1: a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent [syn: {campsite},
{campground}, {camping site}, {camping ground}, {bivouac},
{camping area}]
2: temporary living quarters specially built by the army for
soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were
grumbling" [syn: {camp}, {cantonment}, {bivouac}]
3: the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp [syn: {camping},
{bivouacking}, {tenting}]
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