tent
A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth,…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 pitched our tents before it got dark.
Wir bauten unsere Zelte auf bevor es dunkel wurde.
Мы разбили палатки, до того как стемнело.
Ми поставили намети до того, як стемніло.
Meaning
9 sensesA 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.
Zelt
пала́ткаpalátka, шатёрšatjór
наме́тnamét, шатро́šatró
a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
(Scotland)A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
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.
A probe for searching a wound.
(archaic)The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
(Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal)Attention; regard, care.
(archaic)Intention; design.
(archaic)A kind of red wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.
Examples
1014 sentencesWe pitched our tents before it got dark.
Ми поставили намети до того, як стемніло.
ruМы разбили палатки, до того как стемнело.
deWir bauten unsere Zelte auf bevor es dunkel wurde.
Let's put up the tent while it's still light.
Давайте поставимо намет, поки ще світло.
deBauen wir das Zelt auf, solange es noch hell ist.
How will they get through the cold winter in that tent?
Як вони переживуть холодну зиму у цьому наметі?
deWie werden sie in diesem Zelt über den kalten Winter kommen?
They live in tents.
Вони живуть у палатках.
ruОни живут в палатках.
We slept in a tent.
Ми спали у палатці.
ruМы спали в палатке.
deWir haben gezeltet.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English tente, borrowed from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta (“tentFrom 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”).
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”). Compare tend, from an aphetic variation of attend
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”).
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.
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Forms
plural: tentsSynonyms
3 synonyms- a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs):collapsible shelter
Word family
29 related wordsCollocations
7 patterns- pitch the tent
- pitch our tent
- pitch my tent
- pitch your tent
- in a tent
- in his tent
- pitch his tent