Tenant

Quick meaning: Tenant is a noun meaning One who holds a lease (a tenancy).

Meaning

One who holds a lease (a tenancy).

More Meanings

1. (by extension) One who has possession of any place.
2. (computing) Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
3. (property law, by extension) One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.
4. To hold as, or be, a tenant.
5. (transitive) To inhabit.
6. Misconstruction of tenet.
7. (chiefly historical) One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.

Example Sentences

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the happy tenant of your shade

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

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

Word Forms

• tenants
• tenaunt
• tennant
• tennaunt
• tenanting
• tenanted

Synonyms for tenant

Depending on context, synonyms include renter, lessee, rentee, leaseholder, dweller, occupant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include renter, lessor, renting, leaseholder, rental, leasehold.

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