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CANTONMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
Example:
wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling
Synonyms:
bivouac; camp; cantonment; encampment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cantonment" is a kind of...):
military quarters (living quarters for personnel on a military post)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cantonment"):
boot camp (camp for training military recruits)
hutment (an encampment of huts (chiefly military))
laager; lager (a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons)
Derivation:
canton (provide housing for (military personnel))
