Tenant Definition

tĕnənt
tenants
noun
tenants
A person who pays rent to occupy or use land, a building, etc.
Webster's New World
An occupant of or dweller in a specified place.
Webster's New World
A person who possesses lands, etc. by any kind of title.
Webster's New World
The possessor or occupier of land by virtue of any kind of title or right. See tenancy.
Webster's New World Law

One who pays rent in order to temporarily occupy or possess someone else’s land under the terms of a lease or similar document. See lessee.

Webster's New World Law
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verb
tenants
To hold as a tenant or be a tenant.
American Heritage
To hold as a tenant; occupy.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Tenant

Noun

Singular:
tenant
Plural:
tenants

Origin of Tenant

  • First attested 1325, from Anglo-Norman tenaunt, from Old French tenant, present participle of tenir (“to hold"), from Latin tenÄ“re, present active infinitive of teneō (“hold, keep").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French from present participle of tenir to hold from Latin tenēre ten- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tenant Sentence Examples

  • If the tenant paid his rent, the landlord could not forbid subletting.

  • Someone else was asking about her favorite tenant, Mr. Cleary.

  • Land was leased for houses or other buildings to be built upon it, the tenant being rent-free for eight or ten years; after which the building came into the landlord's possession.

  • Improvement contracts are granted for uncultivated bush districts, where one fourth of the produce goes to the landlord, and for plantations of fig-trees, olive-trees and vines, half of the produce of which belongs to the landlord, who at the end of ten years reimburses the tenant for a part of the improvements effected.

  • The contract generally' specified that the house was in good repair, and the tenant was bound to keep it so.

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