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tenant

occupant; one who holds the right to occupy a place: The tenant of that apartment is a woman.
Not to be confused with:
tenet – principle, belief, doctrine; part of a body of doctrine: tenet of a church
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ten·ant

 (tĕn′ənt)
n.
1. One that pays rent to use or occupy land, a building, or other property owned by another.
2. A dweller in a place; an occupant.
tr. & intr.v. ten·ant·ed, ten·ant·ing, ten·ants
To hold as a tenant or be a tenant.

[Middle English, from Old French, from present participle of tenir, to hold, from Latin tenēre; see ten- in Indo-European roots.]
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tenant

(ˈtɛnənt)
n
1. (Law) a person who holds, occupies, or possesses land or property by any kind of right or title, esp from a landlord under a lease
2. a person who has the use of a house, flat, etc, subject to the payment of rent
3. any holder or occupant
vb
4. (Law) (tr) to hold (land or property) as a tenant
5. rare (foll by: in) to dwell
[C14: from Old French, literally: (one who is) holding, from tenir to hold, from Latin tenēre]
ˈtenantable adj
ˈtenantless adj
ˈtenant-ˌlike adj
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ten•ant

(ˈtɛn ənt)

n.
1. 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.
v.t.
3. to hold or occupy as a tenant; dwell in; inhabit.
v.i.
4. to dwell or live (usu. fol. by in).
[1250–1300; Middle English tena(u)nt < Anglo-French; Middle French tenant, n. use of present participle of tenir to hold « Latin tenēre. See -ant]
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tenant


Past participle: tenanted
Gerund: tenanting

Imperative
tenant
tenant
Present
I tenant
you tenant
he/she/it tenants
we tenant
you tenant
they tenant
Preterite
I tenanted
you tenanted
he/she/it tenanted
we tenanted
you tenanted
they tenanted
Present Continuous
I am tenanting
you are tenanting
he/she/it is tenanting
we are tenanting
you are tenanting
they are tenanting
Present Perfect
I have tenanted
you have tenanted
he/she/it has tenanted
we have tenanted
you have tenanted
they have tenanted
Past Continuous
I was tenanting
you were tenanting
he/she/it was tenanting
we were tenanting
you were tenanting
they were tenanting
Past Perfect
I had tenanted
you had tenanted
he/she/it had tenanted
we had tenanted
you had tenanted
they had tenanted
Future
I will tenant
you will tenant
he/she/it will tenant
we will tenant
you will tenant
they will tenant
Future Perfect
I will have tenanted
you will have tenanted
he/she/it will have tenanted
we will have tenanted
you will have tenanted
they will have tenanted
Future Continuous
I will be tenanting
you will be tenanting
he/she/it will be tenanting
we will be tenanting
you will be tenanting
they will be tenanting
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been tenanting
you have been tenanting
he/she/it has been tenanting
we have been tenanting
you have been tenanting
they have been tenanting
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been tenanting
you will have been tenanting
he/she/it will have been tenanting
we will have been tenanting
you will have been tenanting
they will have been tenanting
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been tenanting
you had been tenanting
he/she/it had been tenanting
we had been tenanting
you had been tenanting
they had been tenanting
Conditional
I would tenant
you would tenant
he/she/it would tenant
we would tenant
you would tenant
they would tenant
Past Conditional
I would have tenanted
you would have tenanted
he/she/it would have tenanted
we would have tenanted
you would have tenanted
they would have tenanted
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.tenant - someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone elsetenant - 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"
leaseholder, lessee - a tenant who holds a lease
boarder, lodger, roomer - a tenant in someone's house
payer, remunerator - a person who pays money for something
2.tenant - a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
cotenant - one of two or more tenants holding title to the same property
holder - a person who holds something; "they held two hostages"; "he holds the trophy"; "she holds a United States passport"
life tenant - a tenant whose legal right to retain possession of buildings or lands lasts as long as they (or some other person) live
tenant farmer - a farmer who works land owned by someone else
3.tenant - any occupant who dwells in a place
occupant, occupier, resident - someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
Verb1.tenant - occupy as a tenant
inhabit, live, populate, dwell - inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods"
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tenant

noun leaseholder, resident, renter, occupant, holder, inhabitant, occupier, lodger, boarder, lessee obligations on the landlord for the benefit of the tenant
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Translations
مُسْتَأْجِرمُسْتأجِر
nájemcenájemnínájemník
lejerleje-
vuokralainen
stanar
leiguliîi, leigjandi
賃借人借り主借地人土地を借りる小作人
세입자
apgyvendintas
īrnieksnomnieksrentnieks
najemnik
hyresgäst
ผู้เช่า
người thuê nhà

tenant

[ˈtenənt]
A. Ninquilino/a m/f, arrendatario/a m/f
B. CPD tenant farmer Nagricultor(a) m/f arrendatario/a
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tenant

[ˈtɛnənt] nlocataire mftenant farmer nmétayer/ère m/f
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tenant

nMieter(in) m(f); (of farm)Pächter(in) m(f)
vt (form) housezur Miete wohnen in (+dat); premisesgemietet haben; farmin Pacht haben
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tenant

[ˈtɛnənt] ninquilino/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

tenant

(ˈtenənt) noun
a person who pays rent to another for the use of a house, building, land etc. That man is a tenant of the estate; (also adjective) tenant farmers.
ˈtenanted adjective
(negative untenanted) occupied; lived in. a tenanted house.
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tenant

مُسْتَأْجِر nájemník lejer Mieter ένοικος inquilino vuokralainen locataire stanar inquilino 賃借人 세입자 huurder leietaker dzierżawca inquilino арендатор hyresgäst ผู้เช่า kiracı người thuê nhà 房客
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"They would look around them, no doubt, and bless their good fortune," said Mrs Clay, for Mrs Clay was present: her father had driven her over, nothing being of so much use to Mrs Clay's health as a drive to Kellynch: "but I quite agree with my father in thinking a sailor might be a very desirable tenant. I have known a good deal of the profession; and besides their liberality, they are so neat and careful in all their ways!
Tenant of a top set--bad character--shut himself up in his bedroom closet, and took a dose of arsenic.
But as to what he says about old tenants, in point of fact no new tenant would take the farms on the present terms."
I will go then to the Image-de-Notre-Dame, and drink a glass of Spanish wine with my tenant, which he cannot fail to offer me.
He - probably swayed by prudential consideration of the folly of offending a good tenant - relaxed a little in the laconic style of chipping off his pronouns and auxiliary verbs, and introduced what he supposed would be a subject of interest to me, - a discourse on the advantages and disadvantages of my present place of retirement.
`Why don't you go out and see your grandfather's tenant, the Widow Steavens?
of the same year the summer-house was the lively gathering-place of a crowd of ladies and gentlemen, assembled at a lawn party--the guests of the tenant who had taken Windygates.
This moderation put it in my mind to question him of the Red Fox and the Appin tenants; questions which, I thought, would seem natural enough in the mouth of one travelling to that country.
I have at last procured really dee-sire-rebel tenants.' I said, 'ooray, old boy!' and slapped him on the back."
No grand company was come except the Irwines, for whom the carriage had been sent early, and Arthur was at that moment not in a back room, but walking with the rector into the broad stone cloisters of the old abbey, where the long tables were laid for all the cottage tenants and the farm-servants.
IN the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace -- Radiant palace -- reared its head.
But as the long holdings fell in they were seldom again let to similar tenants, and were mostly pulled down, if not absolutely required by the farmer for his hands.