'Tent' definitions:

Definition of 'tent'

From: WordNet
noun
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" [syn: tent, collapsible shelter]
noun
A web that resembles a tent or carpet
verb
Live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room" [syn: camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent]

Definition of 'Tent'

From: GCIDE
  • Tent \Tent\, n. [Sp. tinto, properly, deep-colored, fr. L. tinctus, p. p. of tingere to dye. See Tinge, and cf. Tint, Tinto.] A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Tent'

From: GCIDE
  • Tent \Tent\, n. [Cf. Attent, n.]
  • 1. Attention; regard, care. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Lydgate. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Intention; design. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Tent'

From: GCIDE
  • Tent \Tent\, v. t. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Tent'

From: GCIDE
  • Tent \Tent\, v. t. [OF. tenter. See Tempt.] To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively. [1913 Webster]
  • I'll tent him to the quick. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Tent'

From: GCIDE
  • Tent \Tent\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tented; p. pr. & vb. n. Tenting.] To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground. --W. Kittredge. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Tent'

From: GCIDE
  • Tent \Tent\, n. [F. tente. See Tent to probe.] (Surg.) (a) 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. (b) A probe for searching a wound. [1913 Webster]
  • The tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. --Shak. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Tent'

From: GCIDE
  • Tent \Tent\, n. [OE. tente, F. tente, LL. tenta, fr. L. tendere, tentum, to stretch. See Tend to move, and cf. Tent a roll of lint.]
  • 1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp. [1913 Webster]
  • Within his tent, large as is a barn. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Her.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing. [1913 Webster]
  • Tent bed, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy.
  • Tent caterpillar (Zool.), any one of several species of gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth (Clisiocampa Americana). Called also {lackery caterpillar}, and webworm. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Tent'

From: Easton
  • Tent
  • Heb. 'ohel (Gen. 9:21, 27). This word is used also of a dwelling or habitation (1 Kings 8:66; Isa. 16:5; Jer. 4:20), and of the temple (Ezek. 41:1). When used of the tabernacle, as in 1 Kings 1:39, it denotes the covering of goat's hair which was placed over the mishcan.
  • Heb. mishcan (Cant. 1:8), used also of a dwelling (Job 18:21; Ps. 87:2), the grave (Isa. 22:16; comp. 14:18), the temple (Ps. 46:4; 84:2; 132:5), and of the tabernacle (Ex. 25:9; 26:1; 40:9; Num. 1:50, 53; 10:11). When distinguished from 'ohel, it denotes the twelve interior curtains which lay upon the framework of the tabernacle (q.v.).
  • Heb. kubbah (Num. 25:8), a dome-like tent devoted to the impure worship of Baal-peor.
  • Heb. succah (2 Sam. 11:11), a tent or booth made of green boughs or branches (see Gen. 33:17; Lev. 23:34, 42; Ps. 18:11; Jonah 4:5; Isa. 4:6; Neh. 8:15-17, where the word is variously rendered).
  • Jubal was "the father of such as dwell in tents" (Gen. 4:20). The patriarchs were "dwellers in tents" (Gen. 9:21, 27; 12:8; 13:12; 26:17); and during their wilderness wanderings all Israel dwelt in tents (Ex. 16:16; Deut. 33:18; Josh. 7:24). Tents have always occupied a prominent place in Eastern life (1 Sam. 17:54; 2 Kings 7:7; Ps. 120:5; Cant. 1:5). Paul the apostle's occupation was that of a tent-maker (Acts 18:3); i.e., perhaps a maker of tent cloth.

Synonyms of 'tent'

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Words containing 'Tent'