bivouac

1. 1.

   live in or as if in a tent

   “Can we go camping again this summer?”

   “The circus tented near the town”

   “The houseguests had to camp in the living room”

   Synonymscampencampcamp outtent

   Broaderpopulate

Other forms of bivouac

plural

bivouacs·

past tense or participle

bivouacked

present participle

bivouacking

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bivouac

What does bivouac mean?

bivouac means "temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bivouac?

bivouac has 2 syllables: biv-ouac. The stress falls on "biv". In IPA it is /ˈbɪvwæk/.

What is another word for bivouac?

Close synonyms include camp, encampment, cantonment, campsite, campground. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bivouac a common word?

bivouac is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.