What does Tenant mean?
Definitions for Tenant
ˈtɛn əntten·ant
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Tenant.
Princeton's WordNet
tenant, renternoun
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"
tenantnoun
a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
tenantverb
any occupant who dwells in a place
tenantverb
occupy as a tenant
Wiktionary
tenantnoun
One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.
tenantnoun
An occupant.
tenantnoun
One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.
tenantverb
To hold as, or be, a tenant.
Etymology: First attested 1325, from tenaunt, from tenant, present participle of tenir, from tenere, present active infinitive of teneo.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
TENANTnoun
Etymology: tenant, French.
I have been your tenant,
And your father’s tenant, these fourscore years. William Shakespeare.Such is the mould that the blest tenant feeds
On precious fruits, and pays his rent in weeds. Edmund Waller.Jupiter had a farm long for want of a tenant. Roger L'Estrange.
His cheerful tenants bless their yearly toil,
Yet to their lord owe more than to the soil. Alexander Pope.The tenants of a manor fall into the sentiments of their lord. Isaac Watts.
The father is a tyrant over slaves and beggars, whom he calls his tenants. Jonathan Swift.
The bear, rough tenant of these shades. James Thomson.
To Tenantverb
To hold on certain conditions.
Etymology: from the noun.
Sir Roger’s estate is tenanted by persons who have served him or his ancestors. Joseph Addison, Spect. №. 107.
ChatGPT
tenant
A tenant is an individual or a business entity that rents or occupies a property, typically a residential space or commercial space, from a landlord or property owner. The tenant pays rent to the landlord in exchange for the right to use and enjoy the premises for a specified period of time, as agreed upon in a lease or rental agreement. During the tenancy, the tenant is responsible for adhering to the terms of the lease, maintaining the property in good condition, and complying with any rules or regulations set by the landlord or property management.
Webster Dictionary
Tenantnoun
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, under Tenement, 2
Tenantnoun
one who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant
Tenantverb
to hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Tenant
ten′ant, n. one who holds or possesses land or property under another, the payments and services which he owes to his superior constituting his tenure: one who has, on certain conditions, temporary possession of any place, an occupant.—v.t. to hold as a tenant.—n. Ten′ancy, a holding by private ownership: a temporary holding of land or property by a tenant.—adj. Ten′antable, fit to be tenanted: in a state of repair suitable for a tenant.—n. Ten′ant-farm′er, a farmer who rents a farm from the landlord.—adj. Ten′antless, without a tenant.—ns.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
TENANT
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tenant is ranked #85659 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Tenant surname appeared 218 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Tenant.
66% or 144 total occurrences were White.
27.5% or 60 total occurrences were Black.
5% or 11 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Tenant' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3697
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Tenant' in Nouns Frequency: #1012
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Tenant in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Tenant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of Tenant in a Sentence
Here is a prime example, in prime NYC real estate, where an uber-wealthy celebrity couple and tenant can take advantage and exploit a law that was intended for truly struggling artists and low-income families in need of affordable housing.
Rent needs to be paid back over a period of time, that's the nature of it, if a tenant can't pay their rent when one month rent of is $ 800, $ 1,200 or $ 1,500, and that goes for many months ? Now you have to pay for a year ?
Rental agreements often have clauses that allow landlords to invalidate a lease if it’s discovered that the tenant lied on an application, so I assume if the tenant has a pig roast, they could accuse the tenant of fraud on the rental application.
Companies are going to reevaluate everything from the size of their locations to the concentration of their locations to the actual location of markets they're in, it will be a tenant market.
Owners recognize and support the need to help tenants without sufficient financial resources to pay rent due to job loss or health circumstances. However, this proposed bill extends the eviction moratorium for residential tenants based on the submission of a simple declaration of financial hardship without proving such hardship caused by COVID-related job loss or income reduction, with no requirement of proof that the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected their income, and no income limitation to qualify for eviction protection, a tenant whose household income went from a half-million dollars to $250,000 would qualify for eviction protection by declaring that their income has been significantly reduced.
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- llogater, inquilíCatalan, Valencian
- nájemce, vlastníkCzech
- tenantWelsh
- Eigentümer, mieten, Pächter, Besitzer, Mieter, BewohnerGerman
- μισθωτής, ενοικιάζω, ενοικιαστής, ένοικος, επικαρπωτής, μισθώνω, νομέαςGreek
- arrendatario, inquilinoSpanish
- مستاجر, مستPersian
- vuokramies, vuokraaja, vuokrata, torppari, haltija, vuokralainen, asukasFinnish
- louer, occupant, locataireFrench
- tionóntaIrish
- jobbágyHungarian
- վարձակալArmenian
- lokacanto, habitero, okupero, okupanto, lokacero, habitantoIdo
- inquilino, locatarioItalian
- 借りる, 小作人, 借地人, 賃借人, [[土地]][[を]][[借りる]], 借り主Japanese
- gobrener, gobrenoresCornish
- kairīhiMāori
- pachter, huurder, bewonerDutch
- leieboerNorwegian
- dzierżawca, najemcaPolish
- inquilinoPortuguese
- съёмщик, снимать, жилец, квартиросъёмщик, арендатор, арендоватьRussian
- stanar, станар, станарка, stanarkaSerbo-Croatian
- arrendera, hyresgäst, arrendator, hyraSwedish
- kiracıTurkish
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