tenant

Pluraltenants

Formstenants, tenanting, tenanted

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A person who rents a home or other place from its owner.

   Like borrowing a bike for a while: you use it but you don't own it.

   The new tenant signed a one-year lease for the apartment.

   Tenants must pay rent at the start of each month.

   Similarrenter, leaseholder, lessee

   Oppositelandlord, lessor

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   Someone who lives in or holds a place, even without renting it.

   Like whoever is sitting in a chair right now: they hold that spot for the moment.

   The cabin's only tenant was an old hermit who guarded it fiercely.

   Birds became the sole tenants of the abandoned tower.

   Similaroccupant, dweller

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3. 3
   verbtransitive

   To live in or occupy a place.

   Like animals moving into a cave and making it their home.

   Wild deer now tenant the empty meadows around the ruins.

   A single family tenanted the farmhouse for generations.

   Similaroccupy, inhabit

   Oppositevacate

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4. 4
   verbtransitive

   To rent and live in a place that belongs to someone else.

   Like renting a bike and treating it as your own for as long as you pay for it.

   They tenant a small apartment near the station.

   She has tenanted the same cottage for twenty years.

   Similarlodge

5. 5
   nouncountable

   Someone who owns land or buildings but still holds them under the rules of a larger system.

   Like having a library card: the books feel yours to use, but the library still owns them.

   In English law, every homeowner is technically a tenant holding land from the Crown.

   Most modern tenants own their homes outright yet still hold them under the Crown's title.

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6. 6
   nounhistoricalcountable

   Long ago, a person who held land in return for service or loyalty to a lord.

   Like paying rent with work and loyalty instead of money.

   Each tenant owed the baron a fixed number of armed men in wartime.

   The lord's tenants worked his fields in exchange for protection.

   Similarvassal

   Oppositelord

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7. 7
   nouncountable

   In shared software, one of the customers who use the same system as others.

   Like families living in one apartment building: they share the structure but each has a private home.

   Each tenant on the platform sees only their own data.

   The service keeps different tenants completely separate from one another.

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