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1. A site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
   - 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 encampment the men were grumbling"
   - camp, cantonment, bivouac
    
3. The act of encamping and living in tents in a camp
   - camping, bivouacking, tenting

Derived forms: encampments

See also: encamp

Type of: habitation, inhabitancy, inhabitation, land site, military quarters, site

Encyclopedia: Encampment