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Encampment

//ɪnˈkæmpm(ə)nt// name, noun

Proper Noun

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a Chinese constellation located near Pegasus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.

Noun

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
"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."
2
the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp wordnet
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A place where people or things stay temporarily. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"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,— […]"
4
temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers wordnet
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An enclosed or fortified prehistoric site, especially a European Iron Age hill-fort. broadly, countable, uncountable

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a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent wordnet
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A meeting of Freemasons. broadly, countable, obsolete, uncountable
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The act of encamping or setting up a camp; also, the state of being encamped or in a camp. uncountable
"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; […]"

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

A calque of Chinese 室宿 (Shìsù) (literally "room" or "chamber").

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