• IPA: /ˈtɛ.nənt/, enPR: tĕnənt

tenant (plural tenants)

1. One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.

   Synonyms: renter

2. One who has possession of any place.

   Synonyms: dweller, occupant

   • sweet tenants of this grove

   • the happy tenant of your shade

   • the sister tenants of the middle deep

3. (legal) One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.
4. (computing) Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.

• lessee
• rentee

• French: locataire
• German: Mieter, Pächter
• Italian: inquilino, locatario
• Portuguese: inquilino
• Russian: аренда́тор
• Spanish: inquilino, arrendatario

• French: occupant
• German: Bewohner, Mieter
• Russian: жиле́ц
• Spanish: habitante, residente

• German: Eigentümer, Besitzer
• Russian: владелец
• Spanish: propietario, dueño

tenant (tenants, present participle tenanting; past and past participle tenanted)

1. To hold as, or be, a tenant.
2. (transitive) To inhabit.
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• French: louer
• German: mieten
• Russian: арендова́ть

1. Misconstruction of tenet#English|tenet

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