tented

[ten-tid]

adjective

1. covered with or living in a tent or tents.

2. shaped like a tent.

Other Word Forms

• half-tented adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of tented¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; tent ¹ + -ed ³

Example Sentences

In 2020, one camp was shut down after footage surfaced of its staff trying to drive a herd away from their tented compound along the Mara River.

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He recalls seeing the tented graveside set-up at a family funeral and asking his mom "are we going to the circus?"

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The wives and children are arbitrarily detained in sprawling desolate tented camps that amount to open-air prisons.

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Later, they moved into one of the huge tented camps established by the United Nations.

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Facility administrators built a tented area outside the main building to process arriving detainees, but it wasn’t enough to alleviate the overcrowding, Louisdor said.

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