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noun

plural of bivouac
as in campgrounds
a place where a group of people live for a short time in tents or cabins soldiers setting up a bivouac by the stream

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bivouacs

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verb

present tense third-person singular of bivouac
1
as in tents
to live in a camp or the outdoors the army bivouacked for the night by the lake

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2
as in houses
to provide with living quarters or shelter survivors of the tornado were bivouacked in the church basement

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Recent Examples of bivouacs
Noun
The main reason for this simplicity is that bivouacs are built on location. — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 7 Nov. 2025 Like modern-day companies that merge and re-emerge or fold, some of these schools went under quickly, or moved their bivouacs, or combined forces. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026 As fuel prices continue to climb toward record territory, Costco parking lots are looking more like Mad Max bivouacs than suburban warehouses. — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 8 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bivouacs
  1. campgrounds
  2. houses
  3. campsites
  4. camps
  5. encampments
  6. shelters
  7. lodges
  8. rooms
Noun
  • Where to Stay The park has two campgrounds, Cedar Pass and Sage Creek, but visitors can also opt for backcountry camping.
    — Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
  • For those looking for simple car camping (beginner) Each of these campgrounds are in Angeles National Forest, offer piped water and vault toilets, and have sites with picnic tables, parking spots and campfire rings.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
Definition of campgrounds
Verb
  • The property also houses its own private theater, wine cellar, tasting room, game room, poker room and fitness center.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
  • Even with a modest rebound after the pandemic, the BOP today houses roughly 154,000 inmates, nearly 30 percent fewer than at its 2013 peak.
    — Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of houses
Noun
  • Multiple campsites remained open in Los Padres National Forest, even over the weekend.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • The Missouri River and Lewis and Clark campsites and Indian tepee rings still intact!
    — Padgett Powell, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
Definition of campsites
Verb
  • That sounds like a figure of speech because nobody camps out overnight for tickets anymore.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Now a grandmother, the 65-year-old often camps with up to four generations of her family, from her husband to her grandchildren.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 1 Dec. 2025
Definition of camps
Noun
  • The Interior Department began clearing homeless encampments and removing graffiti from federal property.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 3 July 2026
  • Roden-Reynolds, the epidemiologist Lea Hamner, and Virginia Barbatti, the executive director of a nonprofit called Tick Free Martha’s Vineyard, were hunched over their laptops at locations around the island, scrutinizing a map of enemy encampments.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Definition of encampments
Verb
  • Made up of vast mangrove forests, brackish marshlands, and tons of tiny islands, the refuge shelters a wide variety of animals, including American alligators and crocodiles, Florida panthers, manatees, river otters, bottle-nosed dolphins, and more than 200 species of migratory birds.
    — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026
  • The film centers on Cheng Jun, a Chinese international student working the night shift at a 24-hour convenience store who forms an unlikely bond with a homeless elderly woman who shelters there each night.
    — Jenny S. Li, Variety, 15 June 2026
Definition of shelters
Verb
  • And the third line of defense is the military bases that lodges Division 96.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
  • While Xugana was one of the first Delta lodges to open in 1974 as part of the Desert & Delta portfolio, in 2025, the property unveiled a complete rebuild.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
Definition of lodges
Verb
  • Davis rooms with his childhood friends Kel (Nicholas Duvernay), who quits medical school in the premiere to pursue his dream of acting, and Josh (Jack Martin), a journalist whose idealism and sense of ethics do not extend to using his media CEO dad to land a gig as a PA on a news show.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 2 June 2026
  • The side rooms off the main gallery contain playful areas that everyone from kids to grown adults will enjoy.
    — Jenny Hughes, The Spruce, 9 Apr. 2026
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