tent
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- 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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]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
Translations
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]tent (plural tents)
References
[edit]- “tent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch tente, from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta or *tenda.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tent
- Alternative form of tenthe
Noun
[edit]tent
- Alternative form of tenthe
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Verb
[edit]tent
- past participle of tenne
Scots
[edit]← 1 | ← 9 | 10 | 11 → | |
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1 | ||||
Cardinal: ten Ordinal: tent |
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle English tenth, tenthe.
Adjective
[edit]tent
References
[edit]- “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
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tent
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of tentamen. Compare Finnish tentti.
Noun
[edit]tent c
- (Finland, colloquial) exam, examination (test)
Declension
[edit]Declension of tent | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tent | tenten | tenter | tenterna |
Genitive | tents | tentens | tenters | tenternas |
Derived terms
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