Encampment and Fort

Encampment

Encampment noun - A place where a group of people live for a short time in tents or cabins.

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Fort and encampment are semantically related in armed forces topic. In some cases you can use "Fort" instead a noun "Encampment", when it comes to topics like military compound.

Nearby Words: encamped, encamping

Fort

Fort noun - A structure or place from which one can resist attack.

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Encampment and fort are semantically related in armed forces topic. You can use "Encampment" instead a noun "Fort", if it concerns topics such as military compound.

Nearby Words: fortification, fortress, forty

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human	human encampment	human fort
old	old encampment	old fort
full	full encampment	full fort
small	small encampment	small fort
Other adjectives: entire, massive, main, new, military, soviet.

Both words in one sentence

What you do is, you come up past the Yorkshire Television hill fort, turn left at the LWT Bronze Age encampment, go straight on past Southern TV's Beaker Folk village, and we're next door to the field where some poor bleeders are trying to reconstruct Stonehenge.

Source: Historical Re Creation

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