tents

• arbors
• awnings
• backpacks
• bivouacs
• bowers
• canopies
• canvases
• canvasses
• caravans
• ceilings
• covers
• domes
• encamps
• flies
• marquees
• pavilions
• pergolas
• roofs
• screens
• shades
• shelters
• shields
• sleeps out
• sunshades
• umbrellas

• noun
  1. 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.
  2. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
  3. A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
  4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
  5. Attention; regard, care.
  6. Intention; design.
  7. 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.
  8. A probe for searching a wound.
  9. A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.
• verb
  1. To go camping.
  2. 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.
  3. To form into a tent-like shape.
  4. To attend to; to heed.
  5. To guard; to hinder.
  6. (sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

• The campers pitched their tents before nightfall.
• Rows of colorful tents lined the music festival grounds.
• Emergency tents were set up for those affected by the flood.
• Soldiers slept in tents during the training exercise.
• The children played hide-and-seek between the tents.

cabanas

• bungalows
• cabins
• camps
• chalets
• cots
• cottages
• hogans
• hooches
• hootches
• hovels
• hutches
• hutments
• huts
• lean-tos
• lodges
• shacks
• shanties
• sheds
• tents
• wickiups
• wigwams

cabins

backpacks

quarters

takes in

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