Tent Put Noun Up/Take Pitch Food Served Hospitality

• to put up/take down a tent
• to pitch (= put up) a tent
• food will be served in the hospitality tent (= for example at an outdoor show).
• everyone was sleeping outside in tents.

tent

1. a shelter made of a large sheet of canvas, nylon, etc. that is supported by poles and ropes fixed to the ground, and is used especially for camping
• SEE ALSO beer tent
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/beer-tent
• to put up/take down a tent
• to pitch (= put up) a tent
• Food will be served in the hospitality tent (= for example at an outdoor show).
• Everyone was sleeping outside in tents.

Extra Examples

• The refugees had been living in makeshift tents for a year.
• The reporters were waiting for the winners to come to the press tent.
• There was a long queue of troops outside the cookhouse tent.
• A tent city housing refugees from the war sprang up.

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French tente, based on Latin tent- ‘stretched’, from the verb tendere.