tenant
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Noun (3)tenants
- someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else“the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent”Synonyms: renterType of payer, remuneratorKinds lodger, leaseholder
- a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)Type of holderKinds life tenant, tenant farmer, cotenant
- any occupant who dwells in a placeType of resident, occupant
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Translations
Noun renter, occupant paying rent
- Spanish
- inquilino
- French
- locataire
- German
- Mieter
- Italian
- locatario
- Portuguese
- inquilino
- Turkish
- kiracı
- Russian
- аренда́тор arendátor
- Arabic
- مُسْتَأْجِر mustaʔjir
- Chinese
- 房客 fángkè
- Dutch
- pachter
Noun one who has possession of any place
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. tenant, p. pr. of tenir to hold. See Tenable, and cf. Lieutenant.
1. Law One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; — correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, Sir William, under Tenement, 2. Blount. Wharton.
2. One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant. “Sweet tenants of this grove.” William Cowper
The hhappy tenant of your shade.— Abraham Cowley
The sister tenants of the middle deep.— George Noel Gordon, Ld. Byron
Tenant in capite , or Tenant in chief, by the laws of England, one who holds immediately of the king. According to the feudal system, all lands in England are considered as held immediately or mediately of the king, who is styled lord paramount. Such tenants, however, are considered as having the fee of the lands and permanent possession. Blackstone, Sir William — Tenant in common. See under Common.
To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
Sir Roger's estate is tenanted by persons who have served him or his ancestors.— Joseph Addison
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54