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cantonment - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'cantonment' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Cantonment [ n.]
- A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters.

Meaning of 'cantonment' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . cantonment [ n]
Meaning (1):
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
Example in sentence:
  • wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling

Nearby Words:

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