encampment
Syllables: en·camp·mentUK/ɪnˈkæmpm(ə)nt//ɪnˈkæmpmənt/
encampment 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.
Noun
encampment (countable and uncountable, plural encampments)
- 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.
- 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.1725, [Daniel Defoe], “Part I”, in A New Voyage Round the World, by a Course Never Sailed before. […], London: […] A[rthur] Bettesworth, […]; and W. Mears, […], →OCLC, page 69
- 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.1836 October, Washington Irving, chapter XIII, in Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. […], volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, &...
- A place where people or things stay temporarily.
- 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,— […]1853 November, James Russell Lowell, “A Moosehead Journal: Addressed to the Edelmann Storg at the Bagni di Lucca”, in Fireside Travels, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1864, →OCLC, page...
- The Swannekke Island protesters’ camp lies on the mainland between a beach and a marshy lagoon. ... Tatty tents, rainbow-sprayed camper vans, and trailer homes look like unwanted gifts the Pacific dumped there. A strung banner declares: planet against seaboard. ... White toddlers tanned brown as...2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 122
- An enclosed or fortified prehistoric site, especially a European Iron Age hill-fort.
- 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.
- A meeting of Freemasons.
- The act of encamping or setting up a camp; also, the state of being encamped or in a camp.
- Mars Triumphant; or London's Glory: Being the whole art of encampment, with the method of embattling armies, marching them off, posting the officers, forming hollow squares, and the various ways of paying the salute with the half-pike; […]1709 September 6 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Richard Steele], “Friday, August 27, 1709”, in The Tatler, number 60; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The...
- [F]rom the fate of vvar they vvere once more obliged to forſake culture for encampment, the ſvveets of rural life for their ſhocks of battle.1774, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “From the Peace with Persia to the Peace of Nicias”, in The Grecian History, from the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great, volume I, London: […] J[ohn] and...
Proper noun capitalized: Encampment
Encampment
encampment meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
encampment in Hindi
- place where people encamp — see also camp, campsite, bivouac
- कंपू kampū, छावनी chāvnī, लश्कर laśkar, शिविर śivir
encampment in Marathi
- place where people encamp — see also camp, campsite, bivouac
- लष्कर laṣkar, पडाव paḍāv
encampment in Urdu
- place where people encamp — see also camp, campsite, bivouac
- چھاؤنی chāonī, لشکر laśkar, مَحَلَّہ mahalla
encampment in Bengali
- place where people encamp — see also camp, campsite, bivouac
- লস্কর loskor
More languagesFewer languages
- encampment in Malayalam
- പാളയം, പോതാച്ഛാദനം, പടകുടി, പടക്കുടിൽ
- encampment in Kannada
- ಠಾಣೆ ṭhāṇe
- encampment in Gujarati
- છાવણી chāvṇī, લશ્કર laśkar, ઉર્દૂ urdū
- encampment in Arabic
- مَحَلَّة maḥalla, مُخَيَّم muḵayyam, مُعَسْكَر muʕaskar
Examples of encampment in a sentence
- 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.1946 July–August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page...
- In Mississippi, Tom turned an encampment of do-gooder burners into an organization he dubbed Burners Without Borders.2011, Steven T. Jones, The Tribes of Burning Man: How an Experimental City in the Desert is Shaping the New American Counterculture, San...
- As Carriere, the Canadian straggler did not make his appearance for two days after the encampment in the valley, two men were sent on horseback in search of him.1836 October, Washington Irving, chapter VII, in Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. […], volume II...
Forms of encampment
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Origin of encampment
PIE word *h₁én From encamp (“to establish a camp or temporary shelter”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns denoting actions or their results).
A calque of Chinese 室宿 (Shìsù) (literally "room" or "chamber").
Questions about encampment
- What does encampment mean?
- Encampment means 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.
- What is encampment in Hindi?
- Encampment in Hindi is कंपू (kampū), छावनी (chāvnī), लश्कर (laśkar). See Encampment meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use encampment in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is encampment?
- Encampment can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce encampment?
- Encampment is pronounced /ɪnˈkæmpm(ə)nt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of encampment?
- The plural of encampment is encampments.
Words near encampment in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: encampment (page history and authors); Encampment (page history and authors); encampment (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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