en·camp·ment /-mənt/
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 En·camp·ment n.
 1. The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.
 2. 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.

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 encampment
      n 1: a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent [syn: campsite,
            campground, camping site, camping ground, bivouac,
            camping area]
      2: temporary living quarters specially built by the army for
         soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were
         grumbling" [syn: camp, cantonment, bivouac]
      3: the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp [syn: camping,
          bivouacking, tenting]