Definition of Tents

1. Noun. (plural of tent) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tents

1. tent [v] - See also: tent

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tents

tentmaker
tentmakers
tentoria
tentorial
tentorial angle
tentorial nerve
tentorial notch
tentorial sinus
tentorial surface
tentories
tentorium
tentorium of hypophysis
tentory
tentpole
tentpoles
tents (current term)
tentsful
tentwallah
tentwallahs
tentwise
tentwort
tenty
tenuazonic acid
tenue
tenues
tenuiexenous
tenuifolious
tenuin
tenuious
tenuiroster

Literary usage of Tents

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1859)
"First mention of tents in Pentateuch — The Sacred Tent — Early Arabian — Meaning of the word — St. Paul a Tent-maker— A remnant of a race of Jews now in ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The tents of the company officers are in line about 30 yards in rear of their tents. ... Horse equipments are kept on the racks or in the tents. ..."

3. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"The separate tents of Sarah, Leah, Kachel, Zilpah, and bilh' h, may thus have been either separate tents or apartments in the principal tent in each case ..."

4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"For this couplet Homer has only, They to the tents and ... fo that our poet was guided by Dryden : And pitch their tents along the ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"On the employment of tents in the treatment of Constipation.—The Archive» Générales for May last contains some observations, by M. FLEURY, on the treatment ..."

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