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big-tent

big-tent is the alternative form of big tent.

Meaning of big tent

Noun

big tent (plural big tents)

  1. (also, attributive, idiomatic) A group, philosophy, or social or political movement that encompasses or seeks to attract a broad range of constituents or members, or views.
    • Humanism is an expansive trisyllable, a veritable "big-tent" of a word, sheltering many varieties of performance under its spreading canvas.1930 October, Eugene Garret Bewkes, “Humanism and Ethics”, in James H[ayden] Tufts, editor, The International Journal of Ethics: A Quarterly Devoted to the Advancement of Ethical Knowledge and...

Words formed from big-tent

Questions about big-tent

What is big-tent the alternative form of?
Big-tent is the alternative form of big tent.

Words near big-tent in the dictionary

  1. big-shots
  2. big-shouldered
  3. big-sisterly
  4. big-sized
  5. big-sky thinking
  6. big-tent
  7. big-tentism
  8. big-ticket
  9. big-ticket item
  10. big-ticket items
  11. big-time

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