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Definition of Cantonment

Cantonment
Cantonment Can"ton*ment, n. [Cf. F. cantonnement.] A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters. Note: When troops are sheltered in huts or quartered in the houses of the people during any suspension of hostilities, they are said to be in cantonment, or to be cantoned. In India, permanent military stations, or military towns, are termed cantonments.

Meaning of Cantonment from wikipedia

- A cantonment (/kænˈtɒnmənt/, /kænˈtoʊnmənt/, or UK: /kænˈtuːnmənt/) is a military quarters. In Bangladesh, India, ****stan and other parts of South Asia...
- former Vande Bharat Express train which ran from Ajmer Junction till Delhi Cantonment. This train is operated by Indian Railways, connecting Ajmer Jn, Jaipur...
- Cantonment is an unincorporated community in Escambia County, Florida. Once considered an isolated, rural community, it has rapidly expanded with residential...
- Cantonments in ****stan (Urdu: چھاؤنی، پاکستان) are permanent military bases of the ****stan Army, which are administered by Cantonment Boards under the...
- Bengaluru Cantonment railway station, also known as Bangalore Cantonment railway station (station code: BNC) is one of the three important railway stations...
- Cantonment (ISO: Dillī Chāvanī; po****rly referred to as Delhi Cantt) is a class I Cantonment Board established in 1914. The area of the Cantonment is...
- Dhaka Cantonment (Bengali: ঢাকা সেনানিবাস) is a cantonment located in the northern part of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The headquarters of the Bangladesh Army,...
- Ambala Cantonment ****embly constituency is one of the 90 ****embly seats of Haryana. Ambala city is a part of Ambala district. Anil Vij is current MLA....
- Secunderabad Cantonment ****embly constituency is a constituency of Telangana Legislative ****embly, India. It is one of 24 constituencies in the capital...
- Ambala Cantonment is a cantonment town in Ambala district in the state of Haryana, India. It is 200 km north of Delhi and 55 km southwest of Chandigarh...