tenanted
SayTEN-uhn-tid/ˈtɛ.nənt.ɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of tenant.
The estate was tenanted by farm laborers throughout the nineteenth century.
They tenanted a row of cottages near the mill before moving north.
Note
A regular past form, so one spelling serves both the simple past (they tenanted the cottages) and the participle (the estate was tenanted). The participle often works as an adjective before a noun, as in a tenanted building, meaning property with occupants in place. Because the verb can also mean simply "to inhabit," it need not imply a lease: whoever occupies a place can be said to tenant it.
tenanted is a form of tenant
tenant, verb: To live in or occupy a place as a dwelling. Full entry
- Spelling
- tenant → tenanted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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