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big tents

big tents is the plural 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...

Questions about big tents

What is big tents the plural of?
Big tents is the plural of big tent.

Words near big tents in the dictionary

  1. big tamale
  2. big tamales
  3. big tech
  4. big tent
  5. big tentism
  6. big tents
  7. Big Thicket
  8. big things come in small packages
  9. big things sometimes come in small packages
  10. big three
  11. big ticket

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