BIVOUAC (bivouacked, bivouacking)

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Irregular inflected forms: bivouacked    , bivouacking   

 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 soldiers

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

  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 tent

  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)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bivouac    ... he / she / it bivouacs   
Past simple: bivouacked   
Past participle: bivouacked   
-ing form: bivouacking   

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)