encampment

noun6

1. •
   A place where people (such as displaced people, soldiers, or travellers) encamp, that is, stay in tents or other temporary structures; a camp or campsite.

   • As soon as he came to the top of those Hills he plainly discovered the Creek or Harbour vvhere the Pyrate Ships lay, and vvhere they had form'd their Encampment on the Shore. — 1725
2. •
   (figurative) A place where people or things stay temporarily.

   • This was an ancient lobster's house, / A lobster of prodigious nous, / So old that barnacles had spread / Their white encampments o'er its head,— […] — 1853
3. •
   The act of encamping or setting up a camp; also, the state of being encamped or in a camp.

   • [F]rom the fate of vvar they vvere once more obliged to forsake culture for encampment, the svveets of rural life for their shocks of battle. — 1774
4. •
   A meeting (especially an annual meeting or important conference) of an outdoorsy group of people, such as military veterans or scouts of the scouting movement.
5. •
   An enclosed or fortified prehistoric site, especially a European Iron Age hill-fort.
6. •
   (no longer used) A meeting of Freemasons.