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tent

noun verb

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.

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Word Facts

Word length
4
Starts with
T
Ends with
T
Contains
EN
Scrabble score
4
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

How it sounds

Pronunciation

/tɛnt/ /tɛnt/

Meaning

Definitions

noun

  1. 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.

    “We were camping in a three-man tent.”

  2. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

  3. A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.

  4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.

verb

  1. To go camping.

    “We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.”

  2. To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.

  3. To form into a tent-like shape.

    “The sheet tented over his midsection.”

noun

  1. Attention; regard, care.

  2. Intention; design.

verb

  1. To attend to; to heed

  2. To guard; to hinder.

noun

  1. 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.

  2. A probe for searching a wound.

verb

  1. (sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

    “to tent a wound”

noun

  1. A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.

In context

Example Sentences

We were camping in a three-man tent.
We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.
The sheet tented over his midsection.
to tent a wound
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