encampment

encampment is a 10-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 24 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.
2. noun. The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.
3. noun. the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp

   Synonyms: bivouacking, camping, tenting

4. noun. temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers

   "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"

   Synonyms: bivouac, camp, cantonment

5. noun. a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent

   Synonyms: bivouac, campground, campsite

Synonyms

bivouacking, camping, tenting, bivouac, camp, cantonment, campground, campsite

Common word forms

encampments

Words from these letters

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