{
    "term": "tent",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "image": "data/images/te/tent.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "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",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **put up/take down a tent**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **pitch** *(= put up)* **a tent**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Food will be served in the hospitality tent *(= for example at an outdoor show)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Everyone was sleeping outside in tents."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The refugees had been living in makeshift tents for a year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The reporters were waiting for the winners to come to the press tent."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was a long queue of troops outside the cookhouse tent."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A tent city housing refugees from the war sprang up."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Holidays"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["camping", "A-frame", "dome"],
                "… of tents": ["row"],
                "verb + tent": ["erect", "pitch", "put up"],
                "tent + verb": ["blow down", "collapse", "blow away"],
                "tent + noun": ["camp", "city", "door"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the tent"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/tent/",
                "audio": "te/tent/tent__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/tent/",
                "audio": "te/tent/tent__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French tente, based on Latin tent- ‘stretched’, from the verb tendere."
}