Definition of Tent

Noun: tent tent

A portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
"he pitched his tent near the creek";
- collapsible shelter
A web that resembles a tent or carpet
(medicine) a piece of material used to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges

Verb: tent tent

Live in or as if in a tent
"The circus tented near the town";
- camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac