tent

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Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

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Definition

  1. noun a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
  2. noun a web that resembles a tent or carpet
  3. verb live in or as if in a tent

Etymology

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”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

collapsible shelter

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