Thesaurus results for CANTONMENT

cantonment

noun

as in fort

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Recent Examples of cantonment The captain had done a brief stint in OK town cantonment after getting his commission three and a half years ago and knew that the vehicle registration plates were the only exciting thing about the city. —

Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026 The installation was locked down less than 10 minutes after the shooting was reported, and officials lifted the lockdown of the main cantonment area at 12:10 p.m. —

Alexandra Koch , Liz Friden, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025 The school bus was transporting students from various areas to a military-run school in a high-security cantonment, according to officials. —

Zia Ur-Rehman, New York Times, 21 May 2025 In the military cantonment, a formidable army stood at the ready, awaiting its lords’ commands. —

Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022 A day earlier, Iraqi troops began turning up in quantity at the huge British cantonment at Basra Airport. —

Simon Akam, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2021 Areas like cantonment, Clement town and Raipur are not shown as Dehradun population even though the city bears their population pressure. —

Hridayesh Joshi, Quartz India, 4 Feb. 2020 Tibet, like Xinjiang province to its north, is a cantonment of the People’s Republic. —

Matthew Continetti, National Review, 24 Aug. 2019 But his no-nonsense, hands-on training regimen transformed the Continental Army into a skilled fighting force that humbled the British when the Americans emerged from their winter cantonment with the decisive triumph at Monmouth. —

Peter Cozzens, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018

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At the end of one of the castle’s walkways, after a turn or two—by electric cart, bicycle, or on foot—and with the air filled with the scent of pine, rosemary, and jasmine, the sentinels are waiting, carved into the rock where the fort’s cannons were once located.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
Ever since her father left the fort almost a whole season ago, walking off into the darkening blue hills with both his hounds, never to return, her mother has taken to these long and aimless searches, sometimes with Brith and sometimes without.

— Maggie O’Farrell, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026