tenant

Meaning

Noun

1. One who holds a lease (a tenancy).
2. One who has possession of any place.
3. Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
4. One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.
5. One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.

Verb

1. To hold as, or be, a tenant.
2. To inhabit.

Synonyms

renter

lessee

leaseholder

lodger

occupant

resident

inhabitant

tenant farmer

farmer

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holder

boarder

hirer

dweller

debtor

leaser

ryot

rent

borrower

leaseh lder

roomer

nominee

occupier

occupy

owner

peasant

servant

slave

farm hand

farm worker

rent out

leasee

indweller

lesee

bearer

set member

burgess

burgher

charter

cultivator

denizen

employed

farmhand

farming

freedman

hire

hire out

inhabit

inmate

landlord

lease

lessor

let

letter

live in

liver

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɛ.nənt/

Etymology

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”).