Usually means: Portable shelter made of fabric.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word tent:

General (34 matching dictionaries)
  1. tent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tent, tent, tent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tent, tent, tent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tent, tent, tent: Wordnik
  7. tent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tent: Wiktionary
  9. tent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Tent, tent: Dictionary.com
  13. tent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tent (album), Tent (disambiguation), Tent (protocol), Tent, The Tent (Atwood book), The Tent (Margaret Atwood book): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tent: Rhymezone
  19. tent (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Tent: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Tent: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. tent: Free Dictionary
  24. tent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. tent: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. tent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. tent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. tent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. -tent, tent-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tent: Medical dictionary
  3. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. TENT: Acronym Finder
  3. TEnT: Glossary of Translation and Interpreting Terminology
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. tent: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tent: Easton Bible
  2. Tent: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tent: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tent, tent: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tent: The Folk File
  3. The Tent, tent: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Hiking Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See tented as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
noun:  (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
noun:  A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
verb:  (intransitive) To go camping.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.
verb:  Synonym of fumigate
verb:  (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed
verb:  (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) to guard; to hinder.
noun:  (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.
noun:  (archaic) Intention; design.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
verb:  (medicine, sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
noun:  (archaic) A kind of red wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.

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