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Meanings of tent in English

Portuguese
acampar
Catalan
acampar
Spanish
acampar

Live in or as if in a tent.

acampar
Portuguese
barraca
Catalan
tenda
Spanish
tienda de campaña

A portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)

barraca

A portable lodging (usually made from waterproof plastic, animal hide or canvas streched by poles) that is used for sheltering people and objects from the weather when camping or at festivals.

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Type of tarpaulin on ships.

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Examples for "marquee"
Examples for "marquee"
1
The company has several marquee customers in the aviation and energy sectors.
Reuters
2
Bigelow: You cast not for marquee value but for performance and talent.
Reuters
3
But the band is striking up; we must adjourn to the marquee.
Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 03
4
There was a sign on the marquee, although it wasn't yet illuminated.
Tell me, pretty maiden
5
Blotnik must have seen his future light up like a Hollywood marquee.
Cross Bones
Usage of tent in English
1
The people in the tent turned in the direction of the disturbance.
In His Steps
2
Order your men to approach as close to the tent as possible.
Quest for honour
3
We arrived at my tent far too soon and not soon enough.
A nameless witch
4
In a tent I was born; in a tent I shall die.
Red Money
5
The red flag fluttered in the breeze above the tent of Varro.
The Lion's Brood
6
But there are five strong reasons for keeping Britain inside the tent.
Reuters
7
The 30-year-old said his family had only received a tent on Sunday.
Reuters
8
In the morning he came to me in my tent and said:
The Mormon Menace: The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite
9
A similar number gathered in a temporary beer tent just behind them.
The Guardian
10
The pools in the tent dwindled and sunk into the saturated soil.
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
11
Foster left the field and immediately went to the team's medical tent.
Reuters
12
Her sons have left the tent to try and look for work.
Reuters
13
Why is that?' Without awaiting an answer, she marched from the tent.
Forge of Darkness
14
Right here in the tent, he'd start digging, right under my cot.
Catch-22
15
Forder sat with the others in the tent doorway round the fire.
The Book of Missionary Heroes
16
He thought of the girl in another tent in that accursed village.
The Son of Tarzan
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Tent through the time
Tent across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Canada
Common
United States of America
Common
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