Difference between Camp and Cantonment

What is the difference between Camp and Cantonment?

Camp as a noun is an outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures. while Cantonment as a noun is temporary military living quarters.

Camp

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures. Ostentatiously effeminate. Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures. An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation. A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary. A group of people with the same ideals or political leanings, strongly supported. An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style. A summer camp.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation. To set up a camp. To stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning point or to guard an area. To behave in a camp manner. To troll for sexual partners. To chat up a guy in the hopes of getting him into bed.

Example sentence: The fun of sitting around Pangong Lake with 40 guys around a fireplace, having a glass of wine... staying in one camp together... that's an experience. Waking up at 5 in the morning, watching the sun come up. You don't do these things in Bombay.

Cantonment

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Temporary military living quarters.A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters.A permanent military station.

We hope you now know whether to use Camp or Cantonment in your sentence.

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