encampment – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
encampment
n.
camp, temporary residence (often made of tents, etc.)
CAMP
CAMP or
cAMP may stand for:
Camp
Camp may refer to:
Outdoor accommodation and recreation
- Campsite or campground, a recreational outdoor sleeping and eating site
- Summer camp, typically organized for groups of children or youth
- Tent city, a housing facility often occupied by homeless people or protesters
- Camp, a term used in New England, Northern Ontario and New Brunswick to describe a cottage
encampment
Noun
1. a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
(synonym) campsite, campground, camping site, camping ground, bivouac, camping area
(hypernym) site, land site
2. temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
(synonym) camp, cantonment, bivouac
(hypernym) military quarters
(hyponym) boot camp
(classification) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
3. the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp
(synonym) camping, bivouacking, tenting
(hypernym) inhabitancy, inhabitation, habitation
(derivation) camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent
Encampment
(n.)
The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.
(n.)
The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Encampment
primarily denoted the resting-place of an army or company of travellers at night, (Genesis 32:21; Exodus 16:13) and was hence applied to the army or caravan when on its march. (Genesis 32:7,8; Exodus 14:19; Joshua 10:5; 11:4) The description of the camp of the Israelites, on their march from Egypt, Numb 2,3, supplies the greatest amount of information on the subject. The tabernacle, corresponding to the chieftains tent of an ordinary encampment, was placed in the centre, and around and facing it, (Numbers 2:1) arranged in four grand divisions, corresponding to the four points of the compass, lay the host of Israel, according to their standards. (Numbers 1:52; 2:2) In the centre, round the tabernacle, and with no standard but the cloudy or fiery pillar which rested over it, were the tents of the priests and Levites. The former, with Moses and Aaron at their head, were encamped on the eastern side. The order of encampment was preserved on the march. (Numbers 2:17)
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) , by William Smith.
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