encampment

Meanings

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

1. a Chinese constellation located near Pegasus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.

Etymology

PIE word *h₁én From encamp (“to establish a camp or temporary shelter”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns denoting actions or their results).