Encampment
[ɪn'kæmpm(ə)nt;en-]
Definition
(n.) The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.
(n.) The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.
Typist: Willie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Camp.
Inputed by Ethel
Examples
- It is like an encampment of forest sons of Anak. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Perhaps there would be rude wind shelters of boughs on one side of the encampment. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- During my first year's encampment General Scott visited West Point, and reviewed the cadets. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I pondered now how to break up my winter-quarters--to leave an encampment where food and forage failed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I passed from the palace of Sweet Waters to the plain on which the encampment lay, and found its inhabitants in commotion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The encampment which preceded the commencement of academic studies was very wearisome and uninteresting. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He did so, but reported that it would have to be made in rear of the line of encampment as it then ran. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Since our encampment here, she daily, hourly visits my thoughts. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They have assembled from many distant places; the ground between the avenues and Silbury Hill is dotted with their encampments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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