tent

Noun

• a web that resembles a tent or carpet

• a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
  • he pitched his tent near the creek
    

Verb

• live in or as if in a tent
  • Can we go camping again this summer?
    
  • The circus tented near the town
    
  • The houseguests had to camp in the living room
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  collapsible shelter , camp , encamp , camp out , bivouac