Noun: tent
Sample Sentences
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We were camping in a three-man tent.
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We bought a new tent that can be put up in five seconds, but it took about twenty minutes to take it down and pack it away.
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A splendid tent was erected on the brae north of the town, and round that the countless congregation assembled. [1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:]
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[…] feeling his erection making a tent in his pants. [2013, Nathan Lapointe, A Strange New World:]
Nouns inflected like tent
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
tente', Latin Nouns '
tentus', Middle English Nouns '
tilt', Old English Nouns '
teld', Spanish Nouns '
tienda'.
Verbs referencing "tent"
Spanish Nouns
tienda, Italian Nouns
tenda, Russian Nouns
тент.