Tenant

/ˈtɛ.nənt/ · noun

Meaning

One who holds a lease (a tenancy)..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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

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

the happy tenant of your shade

But not in silence pass Calypso's isles, / The sister tenants of the middle deep; [...]

What words are these have fall’n from me? ⁠Can calm despair and wild unrest ⁠Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

multi-tenant hosting

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

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Word Forms

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

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