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wall tent

wall tent

4.5
A large camping shelter with four straight cloth walls that gives more room inside than a normal tent
  • noun
  • US
translation icon : carpa de pared
  • Canvas wall tents were provided by the church for campers without cottages; a large boardinghouse was constructed at the edge of the campground for those who preferred to sleep indoors.
  • canvas wall tent
  • roomy wall tent
  • single-wall tent

Examples

  • I would live in a canvas wall tent in the middle of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness from mid-October to mid-June.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • During our camping trip, we set up a large canvas wall tent to provide more living space for the group.

  • The fish camp featured several spacious wall tents that offered a comfortable shelter for the guests.

  • At the festival, we stayed in a cozy wall tent, which had enough room for our gear and a small table.

Synonyms

canvas tent
vswall tent
1 2.5

A shelter made from strong heavy canvas cloth used for camping

adds four vertical walls to create more interior space
large tent
vswall tent
1 1.3

A big shelter made of cloth for people at outdoor events

provides vertical walls to increase practical interior living space
field tent
vswall tent
1 3.9

A large shelter made of heavy cloth used outdoors by soldiers or campers

is intended to give roomy sheltered interior rather than rugged field use
cottage tent
vswall tent
5.3

A large tent with walls and a roof big enough for a family

prioritizes vertical sides for extra interior space

How Spacious

marquee
16 6.7
wall tent
  • US
4.5
two-man tent
1 2.1
one-man
40 3.9

Surface Forms

wall tent singular
wall tents plural

Morphology

wall + tent

The meaning 'a large canvas tent with four vertical walls' is directly derivable from combining 'wall' (vertical side) with 'tent' (collapsible shelter): the compound simply specifies a tent that has walls. This is a straightforward noun-compound pattern that is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words can be expected to understand the MWE without prior exposure.

Etymology

The noun wall tent comes from the tent's straight, vertical walls that make the shelter look more like a small room than a normal sloping tent. Because these tall canvas walls give 'more interior space' and room to stand, the name wall tent explains why people use it today.