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encampment

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Noun

  1. 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.
  2. A place where people or things stay temporarily.
  3. An enclosed or fortified prehistoric site, especially a European Iron Age hill-fort.
  4. A meeting of Freemasons.
  5. The act of encamping or setting up a camp; also, the state of being encamped or in a camp.

Proper noun

  1. a Chinese constellation located near Pegasus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.

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