tenant

/ˈtɛ.nənt/

noun 6verb 2name 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

current, existing, sitting

The landlord decided to raise the rent for all existing tenants at the end of their leases.

life | protected, secure | joint | potential, prospective | business, council, council-house, housing association, local authority, private

VERB + TENANT

find | evict

TENANT + VERB

occupy sth

The tenant occupied the apartment for five years before moving to another city.

TENANT + NOUN

farmer

PHRASES

landlord and tenant

When disputes occur, both the landlord and tenant should try to resolve them calmly.

Definitions

noun

One who holds a lease (a tenancy).

Long even before the last tenant had occupied it, the room had been regarded with fear and aversion, and the end of that last tenant had in no way lightened the gloom that hung about the place.

You are just a tenant here, you say / Living in and out of this life / As cheaply as you can

One who has possession of any place.

c. 1782-1783, William Cowper, Joy in Martyrdom sweet tenants of this grove

the happy tenant of your shade

Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.

multi-tenant hosting

One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.

One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.

verb

To hold as, or be, a tenant.

To inhabit.

His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes fastened at the side with rusty clasps.

The felling of dense and lofty forests, which covered, even within the records of history, a considerable space on the globe, now tenanted by civilized man, must generally have lessened the amount of vegetable food throughout the space where these woods grew.

noun

Misconstruction of tenet.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car tha

renter

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Long even before the last tenant had occupied it, the room had been regarded with fear and aversion, and the end of that last tenant had in no way lightened the gloom that hung about the place.

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You are just a tenant here, you say / Living in and out of this life / As cheaply as you can

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c. 1782-1783, William Cowper, Joy in Martyrdom sweet tenants of this grove

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His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes fastened at the side with rusty clasps.

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The felling of dense and lofty forests, which covered, even within the records of history, a considerable space on the globe, now tenanted by civilized man, must generally have lessened the amount of

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They lived in palatial residences[…]their harems tenanted by numerous women[…]

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, tenant is marked as historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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