Usually means: Temporary settlement of makeshift shelters.
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We found 9 dictionaries that define the word tent city:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. tent city: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tent city: Merriam-Webster
  3. tent city: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tent-city: Wordnik
  5. tent city: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. tent city: Dictionary.com
  7. Tent City, Tent city: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tent city, Tent City: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Tent City)

noun:  A tent city is a temporary housing facility made using tents or other temporary structures.
noun:  Tent City, also called Freedom Village, was an encampment outside of Memphis in Fayette County, Tennessee for African Americans who were evicted from their homes and blacklisted from buying amenities as retaliation for registering to vote during the Civil Rights Movement.


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