Definition of "tent" []

• A portable shelter, as of canvas, stretched over a supporting framework of poles with ropes and pegs. (noun)
• Something resembling such a portable shelter in construction or outline: "her hair a dark tent, her face a thin triangle” ( Anne Tyler). (noun)
• To camp in a tent. (verb-intransitive)
• To form a tent over. (verb-transitive)
• To supply with or put up in tents. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "It is quite an agreeable change to see a leaden sky and hear the rain softly pattering on the tent roof, after many days of sweltering, dazzling heat, _when one is in a comfortable tent_."
• "A tent has been invented by Major H.H. Sibley, of the army, which is known as the "_Sibley tent_.""
• "[Illustration: "_Gravely passed from tent to tent_"] [Illustration: "_And threw her arms round little Ann_"] "Look at that child," said one, "I'm sure"