bivouac
3
9.8
- noun
- /ˈbɪv.wæk/
:
bivouac
- Have him attended to and take him to my bivouac.
- bivouac area
- bivouac sack
- bivouac camp
Examples
-
After hiking for several hours, the team decided to set up a bivouac by the river for the night.
-
Every two or three weeks, Ben and "E" Company changed bivouac areas, either to the outer edge of the perimeter or back toward the beach away from it.
Fiction book (1990) -
We made radio contact with our company; we were the last to reach the bivouac area because it took two days to clear the road.
Fiction book (1990) -
Our first bivouac should be high above the difficult cracks.
-
Come on, Juan, I'll help your people to find a bivouac.
-
Your pardon, General Houston, may I order the men to bivouac?
-
Keep sound in a crowded camp or lonely bivouac.
Fiction book (1995) -
In the morning, we would all go up together and examine the colony and its bivouac.
Academic text (2003) -
Just a few years before, the woods beside the tower were filled with federal troops on bivouac.
Fiction book (1992) -
Until October 24, Ben and his men continued patrol duty from their bivouac area near the Morotai Radar Station.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A place where people stay in tents or simple buildings for a short time
46
1.4
A place where people put up tents or park small camper vans and use basic facilities like toilets and showers
42
2.1
A place where people put tents or park camper vans to stay for a holiday
31
6.0
A place where people live temporarily in tents outdoors
1
1.3
A place where people put up tents or park caravans to stay with basic facilities
1
1.3
A piece of land where people put up tents to sleep while on a trip
1
2.5
A place where people put up tents or park camper vans on holiday
How Simple
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bivouac comes from old German words bei 'by' and wacht 'watch' and was used for an extra night guard that soldiers kept. So a bivouac became the simple, temporary camp where people slept and kept watch.