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CANTONMENT

• 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.

• CANTONMENT (noun)

Sense 1

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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)

"A rolling stone gathers no moss."
(English proverb)
"Who has no heart, has no heels."
(Albanian proverb)
"Rudeness knows no sweat of shame."
(Arabic proverb)
"What can a cat do if its master is crazy."
(Corsican proverb)

Useful links:
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