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Webster 1913 Edition
Cantonment
Can′ton-ment
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
cantonnement
.] 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.
☞ When troops are sheltered in huts or quartered in the houses of the people during any suspension of hostilities, they are said to be in cantonment, or to be cantoned. In India, permanent military stations, or military towns, are termed cantonments.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cantonment
CANTONMENT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
cantonment
cantonment
English
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 2010, p. 220:
- The cantonments, it transpired, were singularly ill-sited for defence, being built on low, marshy ground, overlooked by hills on all sides.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 220:
- (India) A permanent military station.
References
- cantonment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
See also
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cantonment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia