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 Definitions of Tenant  [ˈtɛn ənt]  

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Definition of 'Tenant' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) tenant
a person or group that rents and occupies land, a house, an office, or the like, from another, usu. under the terms of a lease; lessee.

2.  tenant
an occupant or inhabitant of any place.

3. (v.t.) tenant
to hold or occupy as a tenant; dwell in; inhabit.

4. (v.i.) tenant
to dwell or live (usu. fol. by in).

Etymology:  (1250–1300; ME tena(u)nt < AF; MF tenant, n. use of prp. of tenir to hold &indirdesc; L tenēre. See -ant)

Definition of 'Tenant' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) tenant, renter
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"

2. (noun) tenant
a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)

3. (verb) tenant
any occupant who dwells in a place

4. (verb) tenant
occupy as a tenant


Definition of 'Tenant' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) tenant
sb who rents property
Tenants are expected to keep the property clean.


Definition of 'Tenant' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Tenant
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

2. (noun) Tenant
one who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant

3. (verb) Tenant
to hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant


Translation of 'Tenant' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a person who pays rent to another for the use of a house, building, land etc
That man is a tenant of the estate; (

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: huurder Arabic flag Arabic: مُسْتأجِر Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: наемател
Brazilian flag Brazilian: inquilino Czech flag Czech: nájemce, nájemní German flag German: der/die Pächter(in); Pach
Danish flag Danish: lejer; leje- Greek flag Greek: ενοικιαστής, ένοικος Spanish flag Spanish: inquilino, arrendatario
Estonian flag Estonian: rentnik,üürnik Farsi flag Farsi: مستاجر Finnish flag Finnish: vuokralainen
French flag French: locataire Hebrew flag Hebrew: דַיָר Hindi flag Hindi: किरायेदार
Croatian flag Croatian: zakupac, podstanar Hungarian flag Hungarian: bérlő Indonesian flag Indonesian: penyewa
Icelandic flag Icelandic: leiguliði, leigjandi Italian flag Italian: affittuario, inquilino Japanese flag Japanese: 借用者
Korean flag Korean: 차용자 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: nuomininkas Latvian flag Latvian: nomnieks; rentnieks;īrnie
Malay flag Malay: penyewa Dutch flag Dutch: huurder Norwegian flag Norwegian: leieboer; forpakter; husm
Polish flag Polish: dzierżawca, lokator Portuguese flag Portuguese: inquilino Romanian flag Romanian: chiriaş; arendaş
Russian flag Russian: арендатор Slovak flag Slovak: nájomník; nájomné Slovenian flag Slovenian: zakupnik
Serbian flag Serbian: stanar Swedish flag Swedish: hyresgäst, arrendator Thai flag Thai: ผู้เช่า
Turkish flag Turkish: kiracı Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 承租人,租戶 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: орендар; наймач
Urdu flag Urdu: کرايہ دار Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: người thuê, người mướn Chinese flag Chinese: 承租人,租户

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