tenanted
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ənt 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 followed by in ).
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English tena(u)nt < Anglo-French; Middle French tenant, noun use of present participle of tenir to hold ≪ Latin tenēre. See -ant
1250–1300; Middle English tena(u)nt < Anglo-French; Middle French tenant, noun use of present participle of tenir to hold ≪ Latin tenēre. See -ant
Related forms
ten·ant·a·ble, adjective
ten·ant·less, adjective
ten·ant·like, adjective
non·ten·ant, noun
non·ten·ant·a·ble, adjective
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tenant (ˈtɛnənt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | 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 (foll by in) | |
| 4. | (tr) to hold (land or property) as a tenant |
| 5. | rare to dwell |
| [C14: from Old French, literally: (one who is) holding, from tenir to hold, from Latin tenēre] | |
| 'tenantable | |
| —adj | |
| 'tenantless | |
| —adj | |
| 'tenant-like | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
tenant
early 14c., "person who holds lands by title or by lease," from Anglo-Fr. tenaunt (late 13c.), O.Fr. tenant (12c.), noun use of prp. of tenir "to hold," from L. tenere "hold, keep" (see tenet).
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Example sentences
Though intended for retail use, it was never fully tenanted and its potential was never fully realized.
Familiar with squalor and hospitable to vulgarity, his mind was yet tenanted by sorrow, a place of midnight wrestlings.
My description can give no idea how suddenly the fountain was thus tenanted, and how soon it was left desolated.
Sometimes it is only particular sorts of trees that are supposed to be tenanted by spirits.
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