rent
/ˈɹɛnt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I am asking £300 a week rent."
- "This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything."
- "We never ever argue, we never calculate / The currency we've spent / I love you, you pay my rent"
- "A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent."
- "So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do."
- "I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year."
Etymology
From Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.
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Inflected Forms
rents (plural)
rents (present, singular)
renting (participle, present)
rented (participle, past)
rented (past)
more rent (comparative)
most rent (superlative)