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A cantonment is a camp where soldiers live. The word comes from French cantonnement: putting troops into lodgings. Sometimes it is a simple camp for a while. In India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, a cantonment is often a whole town built for the army, with streets and shops, and people still write “Cantt” in addresses. You will meet the word in history books, army news, and South Asian English. Outside that, it feels formal and a little old. Though actually, it is not “a small canton”: a canton is a political area of a country; a cantonment is where soldiers stay.
軍營；軍隊駐紮地
組成From French cantonnement (housing troops in a district).
同家族的字
- cantonsame French “district / corner” root; troops were quartered in a canton, and the living-place became a cantonment
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cantonmentnoun/kanˈtɒnmənt/
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Temporary military living quarters.
- On the Umballa platform waited a detachment of officers discussing the latest news from the stricken cantonment, and it was here that Bobby learned the real condition of the Tail Twisters.
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A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters.
- The cantonments, it transpired, were singularly ill-sited for defence, being built on low, marshy ground, overlooked by hills on all sides.
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A permanent military station.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。