tent
English
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Pronunciation
- enPR: tĕnt, IPA(key): /tɛnt/
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /tɪnt/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (US, Inland Northern American): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnt
- Homophone: tint (pin–pen merger)
Etymology 1
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”).
Noun
tent (plural tents)
- A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
- We were camping in a three-man tent.
- 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.
- (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
- (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
- A splendid tent was erected on the brae north of the town, and round that the countless congregation assembled.
- A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
- 2013, Nathan Lapointe, A Strange New World:
- […] feeling his erection making a tent in his pants.
Derived terms
- beer tent
- bell-tent
- bell tent
- bender tent
- big tent
- big-tent
- big tent
- box tent
- cook-tent
- cook tent
- crotch tent
- dog tent
- eastern tent caterpillar
- field tent
- fold like a cheap tent
- fold one's tent
- fumigation tent
- mess tent
- morning tent
- oxygen tent
- pitch a tent
- pup tent
- shelter tent
- strike the tent
- table tent
- tent bed
- tent camping
- tent caterpillar
- tent embassy
- tent-maker
- tent meeting
- tent peg
- tent pegging
- tentpole
- tent pole
- tent pole movie
- tent revival
- tent rock
- tent-sack
- tree tent
- were you born in a tent
- Zdarsky tent
Translations
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Verb
tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)
- (intransitive) To go camping.
- We’ll be tenting at the campground this weekend.
- (cooking) To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
- (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.
- The sheet tented over his midsection.
- Synonym of fumigate
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Etymology 2
From Middle English tent (“attention”), aphetic variation of attent (“attention”), from Old French atente (“attention, intention”), from Latin attenta, feminine of attentus, past participle of attendere (“to attend”).
Verb
tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)
- (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed
- 14th century, anonymous, The Romance of Syr Tryamoure
- He let hur have wemen at wylle,
To tent hur, and that was skylle,
And brought hur to bede
- He let hur have wemen at wylle,
- 14th century, anonymous, The Romance of Syr Tryamoure
- (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) to guard; to hinder.
Noun
tent (plural tents)
- (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.
- a. 1451, John Lydgate, The Prohemy of a Marriage betwixt and Olde Man and a Yonge Wife, and the Counsail &c.:
- Lo ! lo ! my frend , take tent to this womman
- (archaic) Intention; design.
- a. 1300, anonymous author, Cursor Mundi:
- A-pon þe feild his fader went
And soght abel wit al his tent
Etymology 3
From Middle English tente (“a probe”), from Middle French tente, deverbal of tenter, from Latin tentāre (“to probe, test”), alteration of temptāre (“to test, probe, tempt”).
Noun
tent (plural tents)
- (medicine) 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.
- (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
Verb
tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)
- (medicine, sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
- to tent a wound
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- I'll tent him to the quick.
Etymology 4
From Spanish tinto (“deep-colored”), from Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingo (“to dye”). More at tinge. Doublet of tint and tinto. Compare claret (“French red wine”), also from color.
Noun
tent (plural tents)
References
- “tent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch tente, from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta or *tenda.
Pronunciation
Noun
tent m (plural tenten, diminutive tentje n)
- tent (for camping, special occasions, etc.)
- pavillion
- Synonym: paviljoen
- (informal, Dutch, often in compounds) a building, especially one used for commercial purposes; a joint
- Synonym: keet
Derived terms
Descendants
Middle English
Adjective
tent
- Alternative form of tenthe
Noun
tent
- Alternative form of tenthe
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
tent
- past participle of tenne
Scots
← 1 | ← 9 | 10 | 11 → | |
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1 | ||||
Cardinal: ten Ordinal: tent |
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English tenth, tenthe.
Adjective
tent
References
- “tend, adj., n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 7 June 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
- “tent, adj.1, n.1.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 7 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
Southern Kam
Adjective
tent
Swedish
Etymology
Clipping of tentamen. Compare Finnish tentti.
Noun
tent c
- (Finland, colloquial) exam, examination (test)
Declension
Declension of tent | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tent | tenten | tenter | tenterna |
Genitive | tents | tentens | tenters | tenternas |
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