encampment
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- 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.
- A place where people or things stay temporarily.
- An enclosed or fortified prehistoric site, especially a European Iron Age hill-fort.
- A meeting of Freemasons.
- The act of encamping or setting up a camp; also, the state of being encamped or in a camp.
Proper noun
- a Chinese constellation located near Pegasus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.
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