Definitions for encampment

Overview of noun encampment

The noun encampment has 3 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) campsite, campground, camping site, camping ground, bivouac, encampment, camping area

(a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent)

2. camp, encampment, cantonment, bivouac

(temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling")

3. camping, encampment, bivouacking, tenting

(the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp)