Definitions for encampment
ɛnˈkæmp mənten·camp·ment

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. campsite, campground, camping site, camping ground, bivouac, encampment, camping areanoun

   a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent

2. camp, encampment, cantonment, bivouacnoun

   temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers

   "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"

3. camping, encampment, bivouacking, tentingnoun

   the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. encampmentnoun

   A campsite.

2. encampmentnoun

   A group of temporary living quarters and/or other temporary structures.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Encampmentnoun

   Etymology: from encamp.

   1. The act of encamping, or pitching tents.2. A camp; tents pitched in order.

   Their enemies served to improve them in their encampments, weapons, or something else. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol. Sac. b. iii.

   When a gen’ral bids the martial train
   Spread their encampment o’er the spacious plain,
   Thick rising tents a canvas city build. John Gay, Trivia.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. encampment

   An encampment is a temporary or makeshift shelter or group of shelters, often used by soldiers, refugees, explorers, or nomads, usually consisting of tents or other portable structures. It can also refer to the act of setting up or establishing such a place to stay.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Encampmentnoun

   the act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest

2. Encampmentnoun

   the place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Encampment

   The Encampment mansion is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the northern mansions of the Black Tortoise.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. encampment

   See CAMP.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. encampment

   The pitching of a camp. The act of pitching huts or tents, as by an army, for temporary lodging, or rest; the place where an army or company is encamped. There are intrenched camps, where an army is intended to be kept some time, protected against the enemy; flying camps, for brief occupation; camps of position, bearing relation to the strategy of the commander; and camps of instruction, to habituate the troops to the duties and fatigues of war.

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1. • Military
   • Military Quarters
   • Site

How to pronounce encampment?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of encampment in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of encampment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of encampment in a Sentence

1. Ray Bramson:

   It was a change in approach, historically we'd come in and clean the site and people would come back and repopulate it. We realized that we needed to deal with the underlying issue creating the encampment, which is homelessness.

2. Mary Beth Brown:

   As soon as I saw the encampment my immediate thought was, 'This is like shantytown,' they both went to the board of curators and won.

3. Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen:

   This is a humanitarian crisis. We will do everything possible to help these people, if The President will not provide us with financial assistance to house and feed these people, The President will be creating a homeless encampment.

4. Lorena González:

   Nobody wants an encampment anywhere in the city, i am not, as mayor, going to forcibly remove people out of one public space and shift the issue to another public space.

5. Lynda Hopkins:

   We're legally mandated to provide alternatives to every single resident along Joe Rodota Trail before we move forward with clearing the encampment, we really need to get an encampment opened in a place that is actually appropriate for it.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=encampment
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Encampment
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=encampment
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/encampment
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=encampment
7. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=encampment
8. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html