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–noun

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 lands, tenements, or personalty of another, usually for rent.

3.	an occupant or inhabitant of any place.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to hold or occupy as a tenant; dwell in; inhabit.

–verb (used without object)

5.	to dwell or live (usually fol. by in).

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME tena(u)nt < AF; MF tenant, n. use of prp. of tenir to hold ≪ L tenére. See -ant

]

—Related forms

ten·ant·a·ble, adjective

ten·ant·less, adjective

ten·ant·like, adjective

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ten·ant Audio Help (těn'ənt) Pronunciation Key
n.

One that pays rent to use or occupy land, a building, or other property owned by another.
A dweller in a place; an occupant.
Law One who holds or possesses lands, tenements, or sometimes personal property by any kind of title.

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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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
tenant

1325, "person who holds lands by title or by lease," from Anglo-Fr. tenaunt (1292), O.Fr. tenant (12c.), noun use of prp. of tenir "to hold," from L. tenere "hold, keep" (see tenet).

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tenant
noun
1.	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"
2.	a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
3.	any occupant who dwells in a place
verb
1.	occupy as a tenant

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version) - Cite This Source - Share This
tenant [ˈtenənt] noun

a person who pays rent to another for the use of a house, building, land etc
Example: That man is a tenant of the estate; (also adjective) tenant farmers

Arabic:	مُسْتأجِر
Chinese (Simplified):	承租人，租户
Chinese (Traditional):	承租人，租戶
Czech:	nájemce, nájemní
Danish:	lejer; leje-
Dutch:	huurder
Estonian:	rentnik, üürnik
Finnish:	vuokralainen
French:	locataire
German:	der, *die Pächter(in); Pacht-…
Greek:	ενοικιαστής, ένοικος
Hungarian:	bérlő
Icelandic:	leiguliði, leigjandi
Indonesian:	penyewa
Italian:	affittuario, inquilino

Japanese:	借用者
Korean:	임차인
Latvian:	nomnieks; rentnieks; īrnieks
Lithuanian:	nuomininkas
Norwegian:	leieboer; forpakter; husmann
Polish:	dzierżawca, lokator
Portuguese (Brazil):	inquilino
Portuguese (Portugal):	inquilino
Romanian:	chiriaş; arendaş
Russian:	арендатор
Slovak:	nájomník; nájomné
Slovenian:	zakupnik
Spanish:	inquilino, arrendatario
Swedish:	hyresgäst, arrendator
Turkish:	kiracı

See also: tenanted

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source - Share This

Main Entry: ten·ant
Pronunciation: 'te-n&nt
Function: noun
Etymology: Anglo-French, from Old French, from present participle of tenir to hold, from Latin tenEre
: one who holds or possesses property by any kind of right : one who holds a tenancy in property; specifically : one who possesses property in exchange for payment of rent —see also LESSEE —compare TENANCY

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Tenant

Cap"i*te\, n. [L., abl. of caput head.] See under Tenant.

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Tenant

Lieu*ten"ant\ (l[-u]*t[e^]n"ant), n. [F., fr. lieu place + tenant holding, p. pr. of tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Lieu, and Tenant, and cf. Locum Tenens.]

1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty.

The lawful magistrate, who is the vicegerent or lieutenant of God. --Abp. Bramhall.

2. (a) A commissioned officer in the army, next below a captain. (b) A commissioned officer in the British navy, in rank next below a commander. (c) A commissioned officer in the United States navy, in rank next below a lieutenant commander.

Note: Lieutenant is often used, either adjectively or in hyphened compounds, to denote an officer, in rank next below another, especially when the duties of the higher officer may devolve upon the lower one; as, lieutenant general, or lieutenant-general; lieutenant colonel, or lieutenant-colonel; lieutenant governor, etc.

Deputy lieutenant, the title of any one of the deputies or assistants of the lord lieutenant of a county. [Eng.]

Lieutenant colonel, an army officer next in rank above major, and below colonel.

Lieutenant commander, an officer in the United States navy, in rank next below a commander and next above a lieutenant.

Lieutenant general. See in Vocabulary.

Lieutenant governor. (a) An officer of a State, being next in rank to the governor, and, in case of the death or resignation of the latter, himself acting as governor. [U. S.] (b) A deputy governor acting as the chief civil officer of one of several colonies under a governor general. [Eng.]

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Tenant

Ten"a*ble\, a. [F. tenable, fr. tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Thin, and cf. Continue, Continent, Entertain, Maintain, Tenant, Tent.] Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument.

If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still. --Shak.

I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when it was tenable. --Sir W. Scott.

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Tenant

Ten"an*cy\, n.; pl. Tenacies. [Cf. OF. tenace, LL. tenentia. See Tenant.] (Law) (a) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another. (b) (O. Eng. Law) A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another. --Blount. Blackstone. Wharton.

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Tenant

Ten"ant\, n. [F. tenant, p. pr. of tenir to hold. See Tenable, and cf. Lieutenant.]

1. (Law) 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 [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.

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Tenant

Ten"ant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tenanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tenanting.] To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.

Sir Roger's estate is tenanted by persons who have served him or his ancestors. --Addison.

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