bivouac

«bivouac» in Mova's school dictionary: A simple, temporary camp, often without a tent, made by… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a bivouac, bivouacs); verb (bivouac, bivouacs, bivouacked, bivouacking)

meaning for a pupil

1) A simple, temporary camp, often without a tent, made by soldiers or mountain climbers. tree →

2) (verb) To camp outside for the night in such a camp. tree →

3) A bivvy (bivvy bag), a small waterproof shelter for one person. tree →

sense in the lessons

In scouting, Duke of Edinburgh and outdoor-education trips, children learn to make a bivouac shelter from branches or a tarp. In history and adventure stories, soldiers bivouac in fields before a battle. Safety: keep warm and dry, never light fires under a tarp.

examples

• We built a bivouac out of sticks and leaves in the woods. tree →
• The climbers bivouacked on a ledge halfway up the mountain. tree →
• The soldiers set up a bivouac by the river. tree →
• Our scout group slept in bivouacs for one night. tree →
• He carries a bivvy bag in case he gets stuck on the hills. tree →
• The bivouac kept out most of the rain. tree →

note

Spelling trap: past and -ing forms add «k»: bivouacked, bivouacking. Say BIV-oo-ak. Informal short form: bivvy (UK).

In the corpora

• Army ants link their bodies into bridges and even a living nest called a bivouac, with no ant in charge.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bivouac» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.