Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun encampment
3 senses of encampment
Sense 1
campsite, campground, camping site, camping ground, bivouac, encampment, camping area -- (a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent)
=> site, land site -- (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school")
Sense 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")
=> military quarters -- (living quarters for personnel on a military post)
Sense 3
camping, encampment, bivouacking, tenting -- (the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp)
=> inhabitancy, inhabitation, habitation -- (the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men); "he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony")