tented

American  

[ten-tid] / ˈtɛn tɪd /

adjective

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

2. shaped like a tent.

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Other Word Forms

• half-tented adjective

Etymology

Origin of tented

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

Example Sentences

Inside a tented mosque, she sits on the floor listening to a litany of woes from women, many of them widows, living in grinding poverty and pain, without assistance.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025

Soon after the brother arrived from the tented refugee camp of al-Mawasi, also in southern Gaza.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

It tented up over the little posts for the net.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram