Definitions for tent

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tent tent

Spelling: [tent]

IPA: /tɛnt/

Tent is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in tent (entt).

Definitions for tent

noun

1. a 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.
2. something that resembles a tent.
3. tent dress.
4. a probe.
5. a roll or pledget, usually of soft absorbent material, as lint or gauze, for dilating an orifice, keeping a wound open, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to lodge in tents.
2. to cover with or as if with a tent:
3. to give or pay attention to; heed.
4. to keep (a wound) open with a tent.

verb (used without object)

1. to live in a tent; encamp.

Origin of tent

1250-1300; Middle English tente Old French Latin tenta, feminine of tentus past participle of tendere to extend, stretch; compare tentōrium tent

Examples for tent

You haven't seen the bride's table in the tent yet, have you, Hippy?

Trenches were dug round the hut and tent, so that they must have had rain.

While quarantined, she was seemingly powerless to challenge her banishment to a tent in Newark.

I got to my tent at 2:15AM, knowing that this is the earliest I will get to bed at Bonnaroo.

Infants and young toddlers are placed in cribs to keep them from roaming; is placing a child in a tent not similar?

The tent caterpillar, which is easily seen, should be destroyed at once.

And the next day he brought word, 'The tent of the sky is building.'

A pile of straw right by the menagerie lit on fire, and reached the tent in seconds.

Will it strive for purity or aim for as big a tent as possible?

The king is at the tent of the brave Du Guesclin, where he will sup to night.