cantonment
English
editEtymology
editFrom French cantonnement.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcantonment (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, published 2010, page 220:
- The cantonments, it transpired, were singularly ill-sited for defence, being built on low, marshy ground, overlooked by hills on all sides.
- (India) A permanent military station.
See also
edit- cantonment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
edit- “cantonment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.