tent
a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,160 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,169 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs) also: collapsible shelter he pitched his tent near the creek
- a web that resembles a tent or carpet
verb
- live in or as if in a tent also: camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac Can we go camping again this summer?The circus tented near the town
tent in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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O no! from that blue tent above, A hero's armor gleams.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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Attalaq rushed up to the village and paused at the tent of Annadoah.
The Eternal Maiden · T. Everett (Thomas Everett) Harré · Chapter 1
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Just before this place; on the circle of the green, I resolved my tent should stand.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1
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He pitched his tent with the village tailor in a little house at Fornside, close by the Moss.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance · Hall, Sir Caine · Chapter 1
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The Chief of my Staff entered my tent whilst I was engaged in studying a map not very successfully.
Punch — Volume 101, November 7, 1891 · Various · Chapter 1