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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bivouac/#m1)

2) (verb) To camp outside for the night in such a camp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bivouac/#m2)

3) A bivvy (bivvy bag), a small waterproof shelter for one person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bivouac/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bivouac/#x1)
- The climbers bivouacked on a ledge halfway up the mountain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bivouac/#x2)
- The soldiers set up a bivouac by the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bivouac/#x3)
- Our scout group slept in bivouacs for one night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bivouac/#x4)
- He carries a bivvy bag in case he gets stuck on the hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bivouac/#x5)
- The bivouac kept out most of the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bivouac/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bivouac» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bivouac/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.