<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.</li><li>something that resembles a tent.</li><li>tent dress.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to lodge in tents.</li><li>to cover with or as if with a tent: In winter the tennis courts are tented in plastic.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to live in a tent; encamp.</li></ul>