tent
1a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
something that resembles a tent.
to lodge in tents.
to cover with or as if with a tent: In winter the tennis courts are tented in plastic.
to live in a tent; encamp.
Origin of tent
1Other words from tent
- tentless, adjective
- tentlike, adjective
Words Nearby tent
Other definitions for tent (2 of 3)
a roll or pledget, usually of soft absorbent material, as lint or gauze, for dilating an orifice, keeping a wound open, etc.
a probe.
to keep (a wound) open with a tent.
Origin of tent
2Other definitions for tent (3 of 3)
Origin of tent
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How to use tent in a sentence
Finally, the future arrives in the Andes, at the ranch Hacienda El Porvenir, which translates as “the future,” where you’ll spend 24 hours venturing no more than 30 feet from a tent, alone, with a journal.
Over the course of 16 days, it’s what kept my key items—a sleeping bag, pillow, tent, cell phone, and journal—dry.
The Gear You Need to Bring on a 225-Mile River Trip | Mitch Breton | September 6, 2020 | Outside OnlineMaghsoodnia notes that having separate buildings, tents or dorms to quarantine sick students is a big challenge for universities.
This elite college is building a COVID ‘bubble’—where students are tested 3 times per week, and can’t leave campus | Lee Clifford | September 5, 2020 | FortuneInvesting thousands of dollars in tents, fans and evaporative cooling equipment, they’ve managed to hide from the sun, keep social distancing and maintain business.
Give people a peek inside of the tent who think they know but don’t know.
Wedged between two marble buildings at the lavishly designed Lincoln Center, sits a single white tent.
While quarantined, she was seemingly powerless to challenge her banishment to a tent in Newark.
But there remains an underlying air of stress, from the media tent to the concession stands.
Beyonce, Jay Z & No Doubt Sing to End Global Poverty in Central Park | Caitlin Dickson | September 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSantorum embraced a more pragmatic big-tent approach to these candidates.
Rick Santorum on ISIS & the Lack of Baptist Jihadis | Ben Jacobs | September 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe smaller “Flood Wall Street” eschewed the big-tent approach and focused on radical politics and aggressive activism.
Occupy Climate Change! Hundreds Blame Capitalism at Flood Wall Street Rally | Jacob Siegel | September 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.
Two young lovers were exchanging their hearts' yearnings beneath the children's tent, which they had found unoccupied.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinThe children possessed themselves of the tent, and Mrs. Pontellier went over to join them.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinIt was a sad day for Ramona and Alessandro when the kindly Hyers pulled up their tent-stakes and left the valley.
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonThey lived at first in a tent; no time to build a house, till the wheat and vegetables were planted.
Ramona | Helen Hunt Jackson
British Dictionary definitions for tent (1 of 4)
/ (tɛnt) /
a portable shelter of canvas, plastic, or other waterproof material supported on poles and fastened to the ground by pegs and ropes
(as modifier): tent peg
something resembling this in function or shape
(intr) to camp in a tent
(tr) to cover with or as if with a tent or tents
(tr) to provide with a tent as shelter
Origin of tent
1Derived forms of tent
- tented, adjective
- tentless, adjective
- tentlike, adjective
British Dictionary definitions for tent (2 of 4)
/ (tɛnt) med /
a plug of soft material for insertion into a bodily canal, etc, to dilate it or maintain its patency
(tr) to insert such a plug into (a bodily canal, etc)
Origin of tent
2British Dictionary definitions for tent (3 of 4)
/ (tɛnt) /
obsolete a red table wine from Alicante, Spain
Origin of tent
3British Dictionary definitions for tent (4 of 4)
/ (tɛnt) Scot /
heed; attention
to pay attention to; take notice of
to attend to
Origin of tent
4Derived forms of tent
- tenter, noun
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