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# encampment

«encampment» in Mova's school dictionary: **A place where a group of people, like soldiers, refugees…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an encampment, encampments)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A place where a group of people, like soldiers, refugees or travellers, set up tents or shelters for a time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encampment/#m1)

2) A camp, especially a large or temporary one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encampment/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, Roman and army encampments; in news, refugee encampments after war or disaster; in stories, an encampment by a fire; phrases: «a military encampment», «refugee encampment».

### examples

- The Roman soldiers built an encampment by the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encampment/#x1)
- The refugees lived in a large encampment for months. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encampment/#x2)
- The scouts set up an encampment in the woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encampment/#x3)
- Smoke rose from the encampment at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encampment/#x4)
- Archaeologists found the remains of an ancient encampment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encampment/#x5)
- Protesters made an encampment outside the building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encampment/#x6)
- He marched back singing to the encampment, and men saw once more the merry Chief they had almost forgotten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encampment/#x7)

### note

Countable. Formal word for camp. Verb: encamp (to set up camp).

### In the corpora

- [And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1104/)
- [Let their encampment be desolate; let none dwell in their tents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1153/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «encampment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encampment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.