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Definitions for Tent

[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] to lodge in tents.
[5] to cover with or as if with a tent: In winter the tennis courts are tented inplastic.
[6] to live in a tent; encamp.
[7] to give or pay attention to; heed.
[8] a probe.
[9] a roll or pledget, usually of soft absorbent material, as lint or gauze, for dilating an orifice, keeping a wound open, etc.
[10] to keep (a wound) open with a tent.
[11] a portable shelter of canvas, plastic, or other waterproof material supported on poles and fastened to the ground by pegs and ropes (as modifier ) tent peg
[12] something resembling this in function or shape
[13] (intr) to camp in a tent
[14] (tr) to cover with or as if with a tent or tents
[15] (tr) to provide with a tent as shelter
[16] a plug of soft material for insertion into a bodily canal, etc, to dilate it or maintain its patency
[17] (tr) to insert such a plug into (a bodily canal, etc)
[18] obsolete a red table wine from Alicante, Spain
[19] heed; attention
[20] to pay attention to; take notice of
[21] to attend to

Words related to Tent

canvas, pavilion, wigwam, tabernacle, yurt, wikiup, tupik, tepee, hogan

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Origin of Tent

31325–75; Middle English tente a probe < Middle French, noun derivative of tenter < Latin tentāre, variant of temptāre to probe, test. See tempt

Other words from Tent

tent·less , adjective
tent·like , adjective

Word origin for Tent

C14: from attent attend and intent

Synonyms for Tent

canvas, pavilion, hogan, tabernacle, tepee, tupik, wigwam, wikiup, yurt, big top