Noun
encampment -
temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
camp ,
cantonment ,
bivouac
military quarters living quarters for personnel on a military post
armed forces ,
armed services ,
military ,
military machine ,
war machine the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region" ; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
boot camp camp for training military recruits
hutment an encampment of huts (chiefly military)
encampment -
the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp
camping ,
bivouacking ,
tenting
inhabitancy ,
inhabitation ,
habitation the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men); "he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony"
encampment -
a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
campsite ,
campground ,
camping site ,
camping ground ,
bivouac ,
camping area
land site ,
site physical position in relation to the surroundings; "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides"
