Associations to the word «Cantonment»

Wiktionary

CANTONMENT, noun. Temporary military living quarters.
CANTONMENT, noun. A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters.
CANTONMENT, noun. (India) A permanent military station.

Dictionary definition

CANTONMENT, noun. Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats