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BIVOUAC (bivouacked, bivouacking)

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IPA (US): 

Irregular inflected forms: bivouacked  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, bivouacking  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bivouac mean? 

BIVOUAC (noun)
  The noun BIVOUAC has 2 senses:

1. temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiersplay

2. a site where people on holiday can pitch a tentplay

  Familiarity information: BIVOUAC used as a noun is rare.


BIVOUAC (verb)
  The verb BIVOUAC has 1 sense:

1. live in or as if in a tentplay

  Familiarity information: BIVOUAC used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BIVOUAC (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bivouac; camp; cantonment; encampment

Context example:

wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling

Hypernyms ("bivouac" is a kind of...):

military quarters (living quarters for personnel on a military post)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bivouac"):

boot camp (camp for training military recruits)

hutment (an encampment of huts (chiefly military))

laager; lager (a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons)

Derivation:

bivouac (live in or as if in a tent)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A site where people on holiday can pitch a tent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

bivouac; campground; camping area; camping ground; camping site; campsite; encampment

Hypernyms ("bivouac" is a kind of...):

land site; site (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located))

Derivation:

bivouac (live in or as if in a tent)


BIVOUAC (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they bivouac  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it bivouacs  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: bivouacked  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: bivouacked  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: bivouacking  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Live in or as if in a tent

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

bivouac; camp; camp out; encamp; tent

Context example:

The houseguests had to camp in the living room

Hypernyms (to "bivouac" is one way to...):

dwell; inhabit; live; populate (be an inhabitant of or reside in)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

bivouac (temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers)

bivouac (a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent)


 Context examples 


It was too late to advance that night, so the Indians settled down into a rude bivouac.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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