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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Encampment \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Encampment, WY Zip code(s): 82325
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