tent

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymscampencampcamp outbivouac

   Broaderpopulate

Other forms of tent

plural

tents·

past tense

tented·

present participle

tenting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tent

What does tent mean?

tent means "a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tent?

tent has 1 syllable: tent. In IPA it is /ˈtɛnt/.

What is another word for tent?

Close synonyms include collapsible shelter, camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tent a common word?

tent is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with tent?

3 words rhyme with tent. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.