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encampment
(encz) | encampment,tábořiště Zdeněk Brož |
Encampment
(gcide) | 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.
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2. The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp;
tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.
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A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient
for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans.
--Gibbon.
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A green encampment yonder meets the eye. --Guardian.
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encampment
(wn) | encampment
n 1: a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent [syn:
campsite, campground, camping site, camping ground,
bivouac, encampment, 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, encampment, cantonment,
bivouac]
3: the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp [syn:
camping, encampment, bivouacking, tenting] |
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Encampment
(gcide) | 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.
[1913 Webster]
2. The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp;
tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.
[1913 Webster]
A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient
for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans.
--Gibbon.
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A green encampment yonder meets the eye. --Guardian.
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