English Explanatory Dictionary

tent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.
  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.
  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.
  4. Synonym of fumigate.
verb
  1. To attend to; to heed.
  2. To guard; to hinder.
noun
  1. Attention; regard, care.
  2. Intention; design.
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. To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
noun
  1. A kind of red wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.

Pronunciation

tĕnt /tɛnt/ /tɪnt/ en-us-tent.ogg en-us-inlandnorth-tent.ogg

Word forms

tent tents tenting tented

Etymology

From Middle English tente, borrowed from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta (“tent”), from the feminine of Latin tentus, ptp. of tendere (“to stretch, extend”), or contracted from *tendita as an alternate past participle. Displaced native Middle English tild, tilt (“tent, tilt”), from Old English teld (“tent”). Compare Spanish tienda (“store, shop; tent”).

Synonyms

fumigate tent wine tinta

Related words

camp lean-to lodge pavilion pavillion pitch tarp

Derived words

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