encampment

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkæmpm(ə)nt/

The English word “encampment” has 6 meanings listed here.

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 (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.

PIE word *h₁én From encamp (“to establish a camp or temporary shelter”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns denoting actions or their results).

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