encampment
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encampment¹
- /ɪnˈkæmpm(ə)nt/ UK
- /ɛn-/ UK
- /ɪŋ-/ UK
- /ɛŋ-/ UK
- /ɪnˈkæmpmənt/ US
- /ɛn-/ US
- /ɪŋ-/ US
- /ɛŋ-/ US
Where it comes from
PIE word
*h₁én
From encamp (“to establish a camp or temporary shelter”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns denoting actions or their results).
noun encampments
- A place where people (such as displaced people, soldiers, or travellers) encamp, that is, stay in tents or other temporary structures; a camp or campsite. As ſoon as he came to the top of thoſe Hills he plainly diſcovered the Creek or Harbour vvhere the Pyrate Ships lay, and vvhere they had form'd their Encampment on the Shore.
- A place where people or things stay temporarily. This was an ancient lobster's house, / A lobster of prodigious nous, / So old that barnacles had spread / Their white encampments o'er its head,— […]
- An enclosed or fortified prehistoric site, especially a European Iron Age hill-fort.
- A meeting (especially an annual meeting or important conference) of an outdoorsy group of people, such as military veterans or scouts of the scouting movement.
- A meeting of Freemasons.
- The act of encamping or setting up a camp; also, the state of being encamped or in a camp. Mars Triumphant; or London's Glory: Being the whole art of encampment, with the method of embattling armies, marching them off, posting the officers, forming hollow squares, and the various ways of paying the salute with the half-pike; […]
Encampment²
Where it comes from
A calque of Chinese 室宿 (Shìsù) (literally "room" or "chamber").
proper noun
- a Chinese constellation located near Pegasus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.
Translations
Every language
noun place where people encamp — see also camp, campsite, bivouac
| Español | campamento, almofalla (disused), almahala (disused), acampamento |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 幕府 bakufu |
| 中文 | 營 /营 yíng, 營寨 /营寨 yíngzhài |
| हिन्दी | कंपू kampū, छावनी chāvnī, लश्कर laśkar, शिविर śivir |
| Kiswahili | boma |
| Português | acampamento |
| Français | campement |
| Deutsch | Feldlager, Lager, Lagerplatz |
| Italiano | accampamento, attendamento, baraccamento, campeggiamento |
| Ελληνικά | κατασκήνωση kataskínosi |
| Română | campament, baracament, tabără |
| العربية | مَحَلَّة maḥalla, مُخَيَّم muḵayyam, مُعَسْكَر muʕaskar |
| עברית | מאהל maahál |
Talk about this word "encampment." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/encampment. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. encampment. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/encampment "encampment." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/encampment.Cite this
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title = {encampment},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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