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encampment   (TTS Sound)

The noun encampment has 3 senses

• campsite, campground, camping site, camping ground, bivouac, encampment, camping area -- (a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent)


• camp, encampment, cantonment, bivouac -- (temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling")


• camping, encampment, bivouacking, tenting -- (the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp)