tent
tent
- n a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
he pitched his tent near the creek - n a web that resembles a tent or carpet
- v live in or as if in a tent
The circus tented near the town
- The exhibit isn't much to look at?tents, food-distribution stalls and wooden latrines.
- A tent is a "collapsible shelter of canvas or other material stretched and sustained by poles.
- A model wears a tent dress at the 3.