1. 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
    
2. A web that resembles a tent or carpet
   "The spider's tent-like web stretched between the branches"
    
3. (medicine) a piece of material used to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges
   "The surgeon inserted a tent to keep the incision open and allow proper drainage"

1. Live in or as if in a tent
   "The circus tented near the town";
   - camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac, bivvy up [informal], bivvy [informal]

Derived forms: tented, tenting, tents

Type of: dwell, inhabit, live, populate, shelter, web

Encyclopedia: Tent