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Tent Put Refugees Noun Bre Up/Take Pitch Food

Word tent
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / tent / NAmE / tent /
Example
  • 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).
  • the refugees had been living in makeshift tents for a year.
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tent

(noun)BrE / tent / NAmE / 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 A-frame tent
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/a-frame-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).

    Extra Examples

    • The refugees had been living in makeshift tents for a year.
    • The reporters were waiting for Tiger Woods to come to the press tent.
    • There was a long queue of troops outside the cookhouse tent.
    • They pitched their tent in a little clearing in the wood.
    • a tent city housing refugees from the war

    Word Origin

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