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Definitions: Bivouac |
BivouacNoun1. Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling". 2. A site where people on holiday can pitch a tent. Verb1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bivouac" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: BivouacSynonyms: campground (n), camping area (n), camping ground (n), camping site (n), campsite (n), cantonment (n), encampment (n), camp (v), camp out (v), encamp (v), tent (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Bivouac, camp, encampment, cantonment, castrametation; barrack, casemate, casern. |
Location | Inhabit; (be present); domesticate, colonize; take root, strike root; anchor; cast anchor, come to an anchor; sit down, settle down; settle; take up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up one's horses at; keep house. |
Quiescence | Resting place; gite; bivouac; home; (abode); pillow; (support); haven; (refuge); goal; (arrival). |
Warning | Watchtower, beacon, signal post; lighthouse; (indication of locality). sentinel, sentry; watch, watchman; watch and ward; watchdog, bandog, housedog; patrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial; undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman; advanced guard, rear guard; lookout. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bivouac |
| English words defined with "bivouac": Bivouacked. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bivouac" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (bivouac). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Le Bivouac (1896) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Going into bivouac at night / Edwin Forbes.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The bivouac feast after a successful forage in the enemies country after the occupation of Munson's hill.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | First Bivouac [...] ford? of 7th regiment at Columbia Springs on Genl Lees property [...].Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Constantine (vicinity), Algeria. A Red Cross clubmobile serving refreshments to troops in an outlying bivouac area.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Carthage, Tunisia. American Army chaplains inspecting the ruins of the Roman arena where Christian martyrs were thrown to the lions. The altar later erected on the site had been used as a bivouac by German troops.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Constantine (vicinity), Algeria. A Red Cross clubmobile serving refreshments to troops in an outlying bivouac area.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | M-34 tank company at bivouac, Ft. Knox, Ky.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Nothing was stirring, not a bivouac fire was extinguished. |
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| "Bivouac" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.00% of the time. "Bivouac" is used about 50 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 50 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bivouac | 34 |
ann arbor bivouac | 8 |
bivouac buddy | 2 |
bivouac hamid m | 2 |
bivouac shelter | 2 |
bivouac tent | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bivouac"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | bivuak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | معسكر مؤقت فى العراء, مثوى مؤقت, مبيت فى معسكر, عسكر فى العراء, إقامة مؤقتة (sojourn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разполагам се на бивак, бивак (camp, outspan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 露营 (Bivouacked, Bivouacking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tábor (camp, encampment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | اردوی موقتی , شب رابیتوته کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bivouac. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Nachtlager (bivouacs), Feldlager (camp, encampment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καταυλισμόσ στην ύπαιθρο, στρατοπεδεύω (camp, encamp), νυκτοφυλακή, διανυκτερεύω στην ύπαιθρο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מא"ל (camp, cantonment, encampment), מח " (camp, cantonment, encampment), לא"ול (camp out, dwell in a tent, pitch a tent, shade), ח י" (encampment, parking, parking station, pitch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | táborozás szabad ég alatt, táborozás (camping, encampment, maroon), szabadban táboroz (to bivouac), szabadban alszik, ideiglenes táborozás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bivak, berkemah (camping, encamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bivacco (camp), addiaccio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 露営 , "ニル樹脂 (beaver, beefsteak, beer garden, beer hall, before service, behaviour, behaviourism, behind, bibliography, bibliomania, chatter mark, Lactobacillus bifidus, vibraphone, vibrato, vinegar, vinyl resin, vinylon, vivid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "バーク , ろえい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 야영지 (Camp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bivaag, arrey oie (night watch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ivouacbay bivaque, bivacar. (various references) bivuac (camp), tabãrã (camp, corral, encampment, group, hutment), tãbãrî. (various references) располагаться биваком, бивак (camp). (various references) bivakovati, bivak, biti u bivaku. (various references) vivaquear, vivaque, vivac. (various references) bivackera, bivack. (various references) ค่ายพรรคชั่วคราว. (various references) açık ordugâh, açık havada gecelemek. (various references) стояти бівуаком, місце розташування. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | castra, castra aestiva, consederant, consedere, consederunt, consedit, conside, considerant, consideras, considerat, consideremus, considerent, consideres, consideret, considero, considunt. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bivouac": bivouacked, bivouacking, bivouacks, bivouacs. (additional references) | |
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"Bivouac" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Biovema, bivoac, bivouack, bivouak, bivouuac, bivouwac, bivuoac, Borovac. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-o-u-v" | |
-2 letters: cobia. | |
-3 letters: ciao, obia. | |
-4 letters: abo, avo, bio, boa, cab, cob, cub, obi, oca, ova, vac, vau, via. | |
-5 letters: ab, ai, ba, bi, bo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-o-u-v" | |
+1 letter: bivouacs. | |
+2 letters: bivouacks. | |
+3 letters: bivouacked. | |
+4 letters: bivouacking, subvocalize, uncombative. | |
+5 letters: subvocalized, subvocalizes, vocabularies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 76 6F 75 61 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. ...- --- ..- .- -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01110110 01101111 01110101 01100001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i v o u a c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0076 006F 0075 0061 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36758881876769 |
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