cantonment

1. 1.

   temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers

   “wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling”

   Synonymscampencampmentbivouac

   Broadermilitary quarters

   Narrowerboot camphutmentlaager

   military

Other forms of cantonment

plural

cantonments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cantonment

What does cantonment mean?

cantonment means "temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers".

How many syllables are in cantonment?

cantonment has 3 syllables: can-ton-ment. The stress falls on "can".

What is another word for cantonment?

Close synonyms include camp, encampment, bivouac. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cantonment a common word?

cantonment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.