encampment
/ɪnˈkæmpmənt/
Frequency: 2.97 in modern English
Meaning
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
An enclosed or fortified prehistoric site, especially a European Iron Age hill-fort.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The act of encamping or setting up a camp; also, the state of being encamped or in a camp.
Uncountable
name
a Chinese constellation located near Pegasus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.
Example Sentences
- "As ſoon as he came to the top of thoſe Hills he plainly diſcovered the Creek or Harbour vvhere the Pyrate Ships lay, and vvhere they had form'd their Encampment on the Shore."
- "One of the greatest dangers that beset the travellers in this part of their expedition, was the vast number of rattlesnakes which infested the rocks about the rapids and portages, and on which the men were in danger of treading. They were often found, too, in quantities about the encampments."
- "[P]erhaps, had the Moors passed these gates, and reached the Christian encampment, lulled, as it was, in security and sleep, that wild army of twenty thousand desperate men might have saved Granada; and Spain might, at this day, possess the only civilised empire which the faith of Mahomet ever founded."
- "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."
- "In Mississippi, Tom turned an encampment of do-gooder burners into an organization he dubbed Burners Without Borders."
- "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,— […]"
Etymology
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Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪnˈkæmpmənt/
- British English: /ɪnˈkæmpm(ə)nt/