cantonment Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
    encampment; bivouac; camp.
    • wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling

WordNet

Can"ton*ment noun
Etymology
Cf. F. cantonnement.
Definitions
  1. 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 1913