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encampment.

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.

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɪnˈkæmpm(ə)nt/Received-Pronunciation/ɛn-/Received-Pronunciation/ɪŋ-/Received-Pronunciation/ɛŋ-/Received-Pronunciation
  1. 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 · often · uncountable
  2. A place where people or things stay temporarily.

    countable · figuratively · uncountable
  3. An enclosed or fortified prehistoric site, especially a European Iron Age hill-fort.

    broadly · countable · uncountable
  4. 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.

    broadly · countable · uncountable
  5. A meeting of Freemasons.

    broadly · countable · obsolete · uncountable
  6. The act of encamping or setting up a camp; also, the state of being encamped or in a camp.

    uncountable
Where this word comes from

PIE word *h₁én From encamp (“to establish a camp or temporary shelter”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns denoting actions or their results).

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