Tenant
21tenant — 1. noun /ˈtɛ.nənt/ a) One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others. , Long even before the last tenant had occupied it, the room had been regarded with fear and aversion, and the end of… …
22Tenant — Recorded as Tenant, Tenaunt and Tennant, this is an English status surname. It originally described a husbandman, the later description being a farmer, or one who held lands from an overlord. The derivation is from the pre 10th century Olde… …
23tenant — /ˈtɛnənt / (say tenuhnt) noun 1. someone who holds land, a house, or the like, from the owner for a period of time, as a lessee or occupant for rent. 2. an occupant or inhabitant of any place. –verb (t) 3. to hold or occupy as a tenant; dwell in; …
24tenant — tenantable, adj. tenantless, adj. tenantlike, adj. /ten euhnt/, n. 1. a person or group that rents and occupies land, a house, an office, or the like, from another for a period of time; lessee. 2. Law. a person who holds or possesses for a time… …
25Tenant — In this period, the king was the great landlord; from him downwards land was held by tenure with various dues and obligations. A tenant could be duke or peasant. [< Lat. teneo = to hold] Cf. Tenant in chief; Fee simple …
26tenant — Synonyms and related words: abide, addressee, artist in residence, berth, board and roomer, boarder, bunk, cohabit, denizen, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, dwell, dweller, habitant, hang out, hirer, homesteader, house detective, incumbent,… …
27tenant — [14] A tenant is etymologically a ‘holder’. The word comes from Old French tenant, a noun use of the present participle of tenir ‘hold’. This in turn went back to Latin tenēre ‘hold’, a descendant of the Indo European base *ten ‘stretch, extend’… …
28tenant — n 1. lessee, leaseholder, renter, roomer, lodger, paying guest; tenant farmer, metayer, sharecropper; sojourner, guest, houseguest, house sitter; occupant, occupier, resident, resider, residencer, residentiary, addressee, inhabitant, habitant,… …
29tenant */*/ — UK [ˈtenənt] / US noun [countable] Word forms tenant : singular tenant plural tenants someone who rents a flat, house, office, piece of land etc from the person who owns it There are six commercial tenants in the building …
30tenant — ten•ant [[t]ˈtɛn ənt[/t]] n. 1) cvb law a person or group that rents and occupies land, a house, an office, or the like, from another, usu. under the terms of a lease; lessee 2) an occupant or inhabitant of any place 3) to hold or occupy as a… …
