tent
A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
Example
“We were camping in a three-man tent.”
Other meanings
A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
Synonyms
- collapsible shelter
A kind of
- shelter
Kinds of tent
- pack tent
- canvas tent
- cottage tent
- fly tent
- lean-to tent
- mountain tent
- pavilion
- pop tent
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "tentus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “tent” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.