tent has definitions from the field of housing
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[ noun ] (housing) a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)

Examples

"he pitched his tent near the creek"

Used in print

(Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)

Standing in the shelter of the tent - a rejected hospital tent on which the rain now dripped , no_longer drumming - Adam watched his own hands touch the objects on the improvised counter of boards laid across two beef barrels .

Standing in the shelter of the tent - a rejected hospital tent on which the rain now dripped , no_longer drumming - Adam watched his own hands touch the objects on the improvised counter of boards laid across two beef barrels .

He looked_out of the tent at the company street .

When they stood about his tent , chaffing each other , exchanging their obscenities , cursing command or weather , he had studied their faces .

Now , Adam , in the gray light of afternoon , stared across at the hut opposite his tent , and thought_of Simms_Purdew lying in there in the gloom , snoring on his bunk , with the fumes of whisky choking the air .

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[ verb ] (housing) live in or as if in a tent

Examples

"Can we go camping again this summer?" "The circus tented near the town" "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"

Related terms

dwell camp camping camper camp

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