CANTONMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cantonment mean? 

• CANTONMENT (noun)
  The noun CANTONMENT has 1 sense:

1. temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers

  Familiarity information: CANTONMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANTONMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bivouac; camp; cantonment; encampment

Context example:

wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling

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))

 Context examples 

We were in India then, in cantonments, at a place we’ll call Bhurtee.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)