Crossword clues for encampment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Encampment \En*camp"ment\, n.
The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.
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The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.
A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans.
--Gibbon.A green encampment yonder meets the eye.
--Guardian.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "place where a camp is formed," from encamp + -ment. From 1680s as "act of forming a camp."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A campsite. 2 A group of temporary living quarters and/or other temporary structures.
WordNet
n. a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent [syn: campsite, campground, camping site, camping ground, bivouac, camping area]
temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling" [syn: camp, cantonment, bivouac]
the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp [syn: camping, bivouacking, tenting]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
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.
Usage examples of "encampment".
The Hungarians, who ambitiously insert the name of Attila among their native kings, may affirm with truth that the hordes, which were subject to his uncle Roas, or Rugilas, had formed their encampments within the limits of modern Hungary, in a fertile country, which liberally supplied the wants of a nation of hunters and shepherds.
I went first to a place called Fumta Bou Beker, twenty-five minutes from our encampment.
The encampment was a shambles, bereft of organization, sloppily prepared and seriously undermanned.
From the encampment to Mount Boban Birni was a distance of six hours S.
Septi, when the scouts reported finding a militia encampment, right where Egyl had predicted, on the eastern edge of the Westerhills.
Humans would simply have demolished the encampment, raised every Zhirrzh in the mission to Eldership, and taken Pheylan Cavanagh back anyway.
Five hundred feet only separated the explorers from the plateau, which they wished to reach so as to establish there an encampment for the night, but these five hundred feet were increased to more than two miles by the zigzags which they had to describe.
It was a vast busy space stretching away northward as far as he could see, methodically cut up into numbered sheds, gasometers, squad encampments, storage areas, interlaced with the omnipresent mono-rail lines, and altogether free from overhead wires or cables.
Chapter 11 Half an hour later Cyrus Harding and Herbert had returned to the encampment.
Cyrus Harding, Herbert, Pencroft, Gideon Spilett, and Neb quitted the encampment.
It was evident that after having reached Reptile End, Harding and his companions would not have time to return before dark to their encampment near the source of the Mercy.
There the local kago bearers sat around a fire in their encampment of flimsy shacks, drinking sake while they waited for customers.
Oued Tolga, or some Sahara encampment, who crawled on foot, or rode decrepit donkeys, hoping to be cured of ailments by the magic power of the marabout, the power of the Baraka.
Climbing down the crater, they went round the cone and reached their encampment of the previous night.
The Indian encampment lay in a hollow, the small wattled huts gathered on both sides of a runlet that oozed from the slope and slipped between a line of stepping stones.