Noun encampment has 3 senses
  1. campsite, campground, camping site, camping ground, bivouac, encampment, camping area - a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
    --1 is a kind of site, land site
  2. camp, encampment, cantonment, bivouac - temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
    --2 is a kind of military quarters
    --2 has particulars: boot camp; hutment; laager, lager
  3. camping, encampment, bivouacking, tenting - the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp
    --3 is a kind of inhabitancy, inhabitation, habitation
    Derived form: verb encamp1
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