tent
noun /tent/
/tent/
- a shelter made of a large sheet of canvas, nylon, etc. that is supported by poles and ropes fixed to the ground, and is used especially for camping
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- to put up/take down a tent
- to pitch (= put up) a tent
- Food will be served in the hospitality tent (= for example at an outdoor show).
- Everyone was sleeping outside in tents.
Extra ExamplesTopics Holidaysb1- The refugees had been living in makeshift tents for a year.
- The reporters were waiting for the winners to come to the press tent.
- There was a long queue of troops outside the cookhouse tent.
- A tent city housing refugees from the war sprang up.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectivesee also big tent- camping
- A-frame
- dome
- …
- row
- erect
- pitch
- put up
- …
- blow down
- collapse
- blow away
- …
- camp
- city
- door
- …
- in a/the tent
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French tente, based on Latin tent- ‘stretched’, from the verb tendere.