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Meanings of tent in English
A portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
Synonyms
Examples for "camp"
Examples for "camp"
1
He would stay in this work camp for days-evenweeks if necessary.
2
The Kormend camp is still open, however, although only five migrants remain.
3
Consumer Reports' assistant project leader Rich Hammond falls into the second camp.
4
Sunday dawned in San Francisco; Sunday in the camp of the refugees.
5
For almost a year, they dared not set foot outside the camp.
1
Nothing was so wholesome and invigorating as this bivouac in the forest.
2
We halted the men here and went into bivouac for the night.
3
The only redeeming feature of this prolonged bivouac was the cabin itself.
4
We will not put up anywhere, but will bivouac in the open.
5
Napoleon always said that the bivouac was the finest training for troops.
1
The day being unusually hot, Camaralzaman thought it best to encamp there.
2
You have the ground you encamp on, and you have no more.
3
Should he not do so, you had best encamp outside the town.
4
We had made no great progress when it was time to encamp.
5
Towards the evening we reached a water-hole, where we determined to encamp.
1
But it isn't safe for anyone to camp out in this area.
2
Two hundred and twenty-five miles of it, after the first camp out.
3
We go on the beach and camp out and all that crap.
4
He pitched his camp out by the mountain, and nobody disturbed him.
5
The way I look at it we're elected to camp out ourselves.
Usage of tent in English
1
The people in the tent turned in the direction of the disturbance.
2
Order your men to approach as close to the tent as possible.
3
We arrived at my tent far too soon and not soon enough.
4
In a tent I was born; in a tent I shall die.
5
The red flag fluttered in the breeze above the tent of Varro.
6
But there are five strong reasons for keeping Britain inside the tent.
7
The 30-year-old said his family had only received a tent on Sunday.
8
In the morning he came to me in my tent and said:
9
A similar number gathered in a temporary beer tent just behind them.
10
The pools in the tent dwindled and sunk into the saturated soil.
11
Foster left the field and immediately went to the team's medical tent.
12
Her sons have left the tent to try and look for work.
13
Why is that?' Without awaiting an answer, she marched from the tent.
14
Right here in the tent, he'd start digging, right under my cot.
15
Forder sat with the others in the tent doorway round the fire.
16
He thought of the girl in another tent in that accursed village.
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Translations for tent
Catalan
Tent through the time
Tent across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Canada
Common
United States of America
Common
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