tenant
see also: Tenant
Etymology 1
Tenant
Proper noun
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see also: Tenant
Etymology 1
From Middle English tenaunt, from Anglo-Norman tenaunt and Old French tenant, present participle of tenir ("to hold"), from Latin tenēre, present active infinitive of teneō ("hold, keep").
Pronunciation Nountenant (plural tenants)
- One who holds a lease (a tenancy).
- Synonyms: renter, lessee, rentee
- Hyponyms: subtenant, undertenant, sublessee, underlessee
- (by extension) One who has possession of any place.
- Synonyms: dweller, occupant
- c. 1782-1783, William Cowper, Joy in Martyrdom
- sweet tenants of this grove
- 1647, Abraham Cowley, The Wish:
- the happy tenant of your shade
- 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto II”, in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC ↗, stanza XXVIII, page 75 ↗:
- But not in silence pass Calypso's isles, / The sister tenants of the middle deep; [...]
- (computing) Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
- multi-tenant hosting
- (chiefly, historic) One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.
- (property law, by extension) One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.
- French: locataire
- German: Mieter, Pächter
- Italian: inquilino, locatario
- Portuguese: inquilino
- Russian: аренда́тор
- Spanish: inquilino, arrendatario
- German: Eigentümer, Besitzer
- Russian: владелец
- Spanish: propietario, dueño
tenant (tenants, present participle tenanting; simple past and past participle tenanted)
- To hold as, or be, a tenant.
- Synonyms: lodge
- (transitive) To inhabit.
- 1814 July 6, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC ↗:
- His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes fastened at the side with rusty clasps.
- 1835, Charles Lyell, chapter IX, in Principles of Geology […] , 4th edition, volume III, London: John Murray, Book III, page 129 ↗:
- The felling of dense and lofty forests, which covered, even within the records of history, a considerable space on the globe, now tenanted by civilized man, must generally have lessened the amount of vegetable food throughout the space where these woods grew.
- French: louer
- German: mieten
- Russian: арендова́ть
Possibly just a modification of tenet, but note obsolete tenent.
Noun- Misconstruction of tenet
Tenant
Proper noun
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