Tent

Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Scrabble:4 ptsWWF:5 pts4 letters

Definition of Tent

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.
"We were camping in a three-man tent."
The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
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.

Verb

To go camping.
"We’ll be tenting at the campground this weekend."
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.
To form into a tent-like shape.
"The sheet tented over his midsection."
Synonym of fumigate.

Verb

To attend to; to heed
to guard; to hinder.

Noun

Attention; regard, care.
Intention; design.

Noun

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.

Verb

To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
"to tent a wound"

Noun

A kind of red wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.

Anagrams of Tent

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Words You Can Make

4 words can be made from the letters in "tent":

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Words formed by adding one letter to "tent" and rearranging:

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Rhyming Words

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