tent city
noun
plural tent cities
: a collection of many tents set up in an area to provide usually temporary shelter (as for people who don't have a permanent place of residence)
Tent cities of displaced homeowners have sprung up …—
Matt Woolsey
Matt WoolseyAnti-sweatshop protesters at FSU pitched a tent city last March to demand that the school join the Workers Rights Consortium …—Meline Toumani et al.
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The last woman to leave the camps, a 33-year-old named Margarita Uría Rodríguez, departed carrying an image of la Caridad del Cobre, the Virgin of Charity and Cuba’s patron saint, which had kept watch over the refugee tent city called Camp Bravo.
—Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025
Add backwards spending priorities, which rank the homeless population above the taxpaying population and tent cities above infrastructure.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2025
During the revolution, which lasted three months, Parubiy was the head of an enormous tent city established by thousands of protesters in Kyiv’s central Independence Square, known as the Maidan.
—Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
This tent also hauntingly echoes the original tent cities created during the Nakba of 1948, when 750,000 Palestinians fled their homes and became refugees.
—Philip Metres
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
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Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025
Add backwards spending priorities, which rank the homeless population above the taxpaying population and tent cities above infrastructure.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2025
During the revolution, which lasted three months, Parubiy was the head of an enormous tent city established by thousands of protesters in Kyiv’s central Independence Square, known as the Maidan.
—Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
This tent also hauntingly echoes the original tent cities created during the Nakba of 1948, when 750,000 Palestinians fled their homes and became refugees.
—Philip Metres
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for tent city
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“Tent city.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tent%20city. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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