cantonment

English

Etymology

From French cantonnement.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /kanˈtɒnmənt/, IPA^(key): /kanˈtuːnmənt/

Noun

cantonment (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

cantonment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

“cantonment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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