tenantable

Variant of tenant

noun

  1. a person who pays rent to occupy or use land, a building, etc.
  2. an occupant of or dweller in a specified place
  3. a person who possesses lands, etc. by any kind of title

Origin: ME tenaunt < OFr tenant, orig. prp. of tenir, to hold < L tenere, to hold < IE base *ten-, to pull, stretch > thin

transitive verb

to hold as a tenant; occupy

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