encampment

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noun

Plural noun:

encampments

1.
(countable, often, uncountable)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.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)A place where people or things stay temporarily.
3.
(broadly, countable, uncountable)An enclosed or fortified prehistoric site, especially a European Iron Age hill-fort.
4.
(broadly, countable, uncountable)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.
5.
(broadly, countable, obsolete, uncountable)A meeting of Freemasons.
6.
(uncountable)The act of encamping or setting up a camp; also, the state of being encamped or in a camp.

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h₁énine-pro thumb|An encampment (camp) in northern Galilee of Arab [[protesters demonstrating against British rule in Palestine in 1938, during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.]]