Definitions for Cantonment

Cantonment can·ton·ment

Spelling: [kan-ton-muh nt, -tohn-; especially British kan-<
IPA: /kænˈtɒn mənt, -ˈtoʊn-; especially British kænˈtun mənt/

Cantonment is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 334 anagrams from letters in Cantonment (acemnnnott).

Definitions for Cantonment

noun

  1. a camp, usually of large size, where men are trained for military service.
  2. military quarters.
  3. the winter quarters of an army.

Origin of Cantonment

1750-60; French cantonnement, equivalent to cantonne(r) to quarter troops (see canton) + -ment -ment

Examples for Cantonment

Agra's cantonment avenues and parks are kept in excellent order.

It is now divided into the municipal area and the cantonment.

He said, We can do nothing about the women outside the cantonment, and there is the trouble.

If you visit a "cantonment" in Upper India, you will find the officers with their families about them.

Early on the 15th General Baker, with 1200 infantry and eight guns, left the cantonment.

I cannot think how people bear their cantonment life so well as they do.

And what could be better than his taking on himself to let you leave the cantonment?

Accordingly the cantonment was declared in a state of siege.

Two hours pass and it is time to rejoin my comrades at the cantonment.

They still have several miles to go before reaching a cantonment.

Word Value for Cantonment
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Words with friends

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