Synonyms of encampments

encampments

noun

plural of encampment

as in campgrounds

a place where a group of people live for a short time in tents or cabins

a recreational area that will serve as this year's encampment for the Scouts' jamboree

Synonyms & Similar Words

• campgrounds
• campsites
• camps
• bivouacs
• barracks
• settlements
• hutments
• plantations
• colonies
• canvases
• jungles
• shantytowns
• cantonments
• concentration camps
• prison camps
• installations
• tentages
• Hoovervilles
• leaguers
• posts
• laagers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of encampments

Homeless encampments that serve as places for drug addicts to shoot up line several vacant and overgrown lots. — Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2026

San Franciscans have seen encampments pop up all over the city, but a large, sprawling line of tents were set up overnight on Battery Street. — Andrea Nakano, CBS News, 12 July 2026

Its most passionate activists are the young progressives who gave us the campus encampments after October 7. — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

The Interior Department began clearing homeless encampments and removing graffiti from federal property. — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 3 July 2026

Roden-Reynolds, the epidemiologist Lea Hamner, and Virginia Barbatti, the executive director of a nonprofit called Tick Free Martha’s Vineyard, were hunched over their laptops at locations around the island, scrutinizing a map of enemy encampments. — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

Antioch, said Torres-Walker, already spends millions on code enforcement contracts to clear encampments around the city. — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 29 June 2026

Across La Guaira, the coastal state hardest-hit by the disaster, and in parts of Caracas, thousands of residents are spending nights outdoors in plazas, parks, sports courts and improvised encampments, sleeping on mattresses, blankets and folding chairs. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 27 June 2026

In January, during our coldest winter in 45 years, the mayor reversed the policy of the previous administration and refused to break up homeless encampments regardless of the sub freezing temperatures. — Bradley Tusk, New York Daily News, 20 June 2026