Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Encampment \En*camp"ment\, n.
   1. The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army
      or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.

   2. The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp;
      tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.

            A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient
            for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans.
                                                  --Gibbon.

            A green encampment yonder meets the eye. --Guardian.

Source : WordNet®

encampment
     n 1: a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent [syn: {campsite},
           {campground}, {camping site}, {camping ground}, {bivouac},
           {camping area}]
     2: temporary living quarters specially built by the army for
        soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were
        grumbling" [syn: {camp}, {cantonment}, {bivouac}]
     3: the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp [syn: {camping},
         {bivouacking}, {tenting}]