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TENANT
tenant, renter
(noun) someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else; “the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn’t pay the rent”
tenant
(noun) any occupant who dwells in a place
tenant
(noun) a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
tenant
(verb) occupy as a tenant
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Tenant (plural Tenants)
A surname.
Anagrams
• Annett
Etymology 1
Noun
tenant (plural tenants)
One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.
Synonym: renter
One who has possession of any place.
Synonyms: dweller, occupant
(legal) One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.
(computing) Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
Synonyms
• lessee
• rentee
Verb
tenant (third-person singular simple present tenants, present participle tenanting, simple past and past participle tenanted)
To hold as, or be, a tenant.
(transitive) To inhabit.
Etymology 2
Noun
tenant
Misconstruction of tenet
Anagrams
• Annett
Source: Wiktionary
Ten"ant, n. Etym: [F. tenant, p.pr. of tenir to hold. See Tenable, and cf. Lieutenant.]
1. (Law)
Definition: One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2. Blount. Wharton.
2. One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant. "Sweet tenants of this grove." Cowper. The hhappy tenant of your shade. Cowley. The sister tenants of the middle deep. Byron. Tenant in capite Etym: [L. in in + capite, abl. of caput head, chief.], or Tenant in chief, by the laws of England, one who holds immediately of the king. According to the feudal system, all lands in England are considered as held immediately or mediately of the king, who is styled lord paramount. Such tenants, however, are considered as having the fee of the lands and permanent possession. Blackstone.
– Tenant in common. See under Common.
Ten"ant, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tenanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tenanting.]
Definition: To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant. Sir Roger's estate is tenanted by persons who have served him or his ancestors. Addison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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