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An example use of tent in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… inside the bake off tent when in 2019 …”
A tent is a shelter made of cloth stretched over a frame.
the word tent occurs in english on average 15.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.