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tenant
[ ten-uhnt ]
noun
- a person or group that rents and occupies land, a house, an office, or the like, from another for a period of time; lessee.
- Law. a person who holds or possesses for a time lands, tenements, or personalty of another, usually for rent.
- an occupant or inhabitant of any place.
verb (used with object)
- to hold or occupy as a tenant; dwell in; inhabit.
verb (used without object)
- to dwell or live (usually followed by in ).
tenant
/ ˈtɛnənt /
noun
- a person who holds, occupies, or possesses land or property by any kind of right or title, esp from a landlord under a lease
- a person who has the use of a house, flat, etc, subject to the payment of rent
- any holder or occupant
verb
- tr to hold (land or property) as a tenant
- rare.intrfoll byin to dwell
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Derived Forms
- ˈtenantless, adjective
- ˈtenant-ˌlike, adjective
- ˈtenantable, adjective
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Other Words From
- tenant·a·ble adjective
- tenant·less adjective
- tenant·like adjective
- non·tenant noun
- non·tenant·a·ble adjective
- un·tenant·a·ble adjective
- un·tenant·ed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tenant1
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Example Sentences
But the law itself is hard to enforce unless there is a specific complaint about a tenant.
El-Hamy Mahmoud El-Hamy, a Cairo landlord, recently urged a female tenant to buy a gun for self-defense purposes.
Phineas has just suffered the defeat of his bill to strengthen the rights of Irish tenant farmers.
It occurs after Phineas has just suffered the defeat of his bill to improve the condition of Irish tenant farmers.
In other words two of the three possible scenarios would end up delivering a new tenant to the White House.
When the harvest time arrives in December, each tenant carries his crop to the mill for grinding.
The agitation for Tenant-Right in Ireland is destined to fail—in fact, has virtually failed already.
But rents are going up in this neighborhood andWell, I can get a much more satisfactory tenant.
When a lease is about to expire a difficult question sometimes arises, what can the tenant take away with him?
She neglected to say that she had paid the tenant a certain sum to leave the cottage and move into another house.
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