See fold one's tent in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for fold one's tent meaning in English (2.2kB)
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "folds one's tent",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "folding one's tent",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "folded one's tent",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "folded one's tent",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "fold one's tent (third-person singular simple present folds one's tent, present participle folding one's tent, simple past and past participle folded one's tent)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "1844, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, \"The Day is Done\" (proem to The Waif), lines 41-44,\nAnd the night shall be filled with music,\nAnd the cares that infest the day\nShall fold their tents like the Arabs,\nAnd as silently steal away."
},
{
"ref": "1982 September 27, “No Mercy for the Sisters”, in Time",
"text": "\"I won't quietly fold my tent and go away,\" snapped Sister Catherine.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005 January 6, Terry Neal, “Talking Points Live”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2008-08-10",
"text": "There are a good number of Democrats who are unhappy with John Kerry, thinking he folded his tent without a fight.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To withdraw, especially in a discreet manner; to disengage; to quit."
],
"id": "en-fold_one's_tent-en-verb-gPZ6zTcQ",
"links": [
[
"withdraw",
"withdraw"
],
[
"discreet",
"discreet"
],
[
"disengage",
"disengage"
],
[
"quit",
"quit"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To withdraw, especially in a discreet manner; to disengage; to quit."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "chicken out"
},
{
"word": "cut and run"
},
{
"word": "stand down"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-fold one's tent.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/db/En-au-fold_one%27s_tent.ogg/En-au-fold_one%27s_tent.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/En-au-fold_one%27s_tent.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "fold one's tent"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "folds one's tent",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "folding one's tent",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "folded one's tent",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "folded one's tent",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "fold one's tent (third-person singular simple present folds one's tent, present participle folding one's tent, simple past and past participle folded one's tent)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with quotations",
"English verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "1844, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, \"The Day is Done\" (proem to The Waif), lines 41-44,\nAnd the night shall be filled with music,\nAnd the cares that infest the day\nShall fold their tents like the Arabs,\nAnd as silently steal away."
},
{
"ref": "1982 September 27, “No Mercy for the Sisters”, in Time",
"text": "\"I won't quietly fold my tent and go away,\" snapped Sister Catherine.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005 January 6, Terry Neal, “Talking Points Live”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2008-08-10",
"text": "There are a good number of Democrats who are unhappy with John Kerry, thinking he folded his tent without a fight.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To withdraw, especially in a discreet manner; to disengage; to quit."
],
"links": [
[
"withdraw",
"withdraw"
],
[
"discreet",
"discreet"
],
[
"disengage",
"disengage"
],
[
"quit",
"quit"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To withdraw, especially in a discreet manner; to disengage; to quit."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-fold one's tent.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/db/En-au-fold_one%27s_tent.ogg/En-au-fold_one%27s_tent.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/En-au-fold_one%27s_tent.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "chicken out"
},
{
"word": "cut and run"
},
{
"word": "stand down"
}
],
"word": "fold one's tent"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.