BIVOUAC (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)
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)
Meaning:
A site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
encampment; campsite; camping site; camping ground; camping area; campground; bivouac
Hypernyms ("bivouac" is a kind of...):
land site; site (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located))
• BIVOUAC (verb)
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 examples:
Can we go camping again this summer? / The circus tented near the town / The houseguests had to camp in the living room
Hypernyms (to "bivouac" is one way to...):
dwell; inhabit; live (inhabit or live in)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
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