cantonment
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French cantonnement.
Pronunciation
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Noun
cantonment (plural cantonments)
- Temporary military living quarters.
- A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 220:
- The cantonments, it transpired, were singularly ill-sited for defence, being built on low, marshy ground, overlooked by hills on all sides.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 220:
- (India) A permanent military station.
See also
cantonment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- “cantonment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.