0 a large group of tents that provide a temporary place for people to live, especially people who do not have a home
1 a large group of tents that provide a temporary place for people to live, especially people who do not have a home:
A tent city measuring 25,000 square metres was erected for this event.
Within two weeks, the movement's tent city comprised more than 60 tents and tarp-covered shelters, including a kitchen, donations tent and media tent.
After being evicted from the building, two hundred squatters set up a tent city on the pavement outside.
In the 1980s and 90s, a tent city with pirated electricity and hundreds, perhaps thousands of dwellers existed in the south end of the tunnel.
Accommodation on the mountain itself is limited to a tent city with hundreds of canvas tents available for rent.
After the police eviction a tent city was erected on the sidewalks around the building for another three months.
Army vehicles then ran over the tent city.
A tent city was erected while the valley was cleared of thick woods.