tenant
/ˈtɛ.nənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who has possession of any place.
noun
Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
noun
One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.
noun
One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.
verb
To hold as, or be, a tenant.
noun
Misconstruction of tenet.
Example Sentences
- "Long even before the last tenant had occupied it, the room had been regarded with fear and aversion, and the end of that last tenant had in no way lightened the gloom that hung about the place."
- "You are just a tenant here, you say / Living in and out of this life / As cheaply as you can"
- "c. 1782-1783, William Cowper, Joy in Martyrdom sweet tenants of this grove"
- "the happy tenant of your shade"
- "But not in silence pass Calypso's isles, / The sister tenants of the middle deep; [...]"
- "What words are these have fall’n from me? Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?"
Etymology
From Middle English tenaunt, from Anglo-Norman tenaunt and Old French tenant, present participle of tenir (“to hold”), from Latin tenēre (“hold, keep”).