Tenant
['tenənt] or ['tɛnənt]
Definition
(noun.) someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else; 'the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent'.
(noun.) any occupant who dwells in a place.
(noun.) a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease).
(verb.) occupy as a tenant.
Inputed by Allen--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.
(n.) One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
(v. t.) To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
Typist: Marvin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Occupier, occupant, resident, dweller, lessee, renter.
Edited by Barbie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Occupant, lessee, occupier, resident, dweller
ANT:Owner, landlord, lessor
Checked by Leroy
Definition
n. one who holds or possesses land or property under another the payments and services which he owes to his superior constituting his tenure: one who has on certain conditions temporary possession of any place an occupant.—v.t. to hold as a tenant.—n. Ten′ancy a holding by private ownership: a temporary holding of land or property by a tenant.—adj. Ten′antable fit to be tenanted: in a state of repair suitable for a tenant.—n. Ten′ant-farm′er a farmer who rents a farm from the landlord.—adj. Ten′antless without a tenant.—ns.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
For a landlord to see his tenant in a dream, denotes he will have business trouble and vexation. To imagine you are a tenant, foretells you will suffer loss in experiments of a business character. If a tenant pays you money, you will be successful in some engagements.
Typist: Mason
Examples
- These services, therefore, being almost entirely arbitrary, subjected the tenant to many vexations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Mr. Bell has recommended me to a Mr. Thornton, a tenant of his, and a very intelligent man, as far as I can judge from his letters. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Mr. Thornton's mill must be somewhere not very far off, for he is Mr. Bell's tenant. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She knew how each tenant of the cottages paid or owed his little rent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Some leases prescribe to the tenant a certain mode of cultivation, and a certain succession of crops, during the whole continuance of the lease. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When the landlord, however, ceases to do his part, it is altogether impossible that the tenant should continue to do his. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- James came into contact with this fellow Hayes, because the man was a tenant of mine, and James acted as agent. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Tenant of a top set--bad character--shut himself up in his bedroom closet, and took a dose of arsenic. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Your tenant Moore, he went on, has won my approbation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Iridium and Osmium discovered by Tenant, and Cerium by Berzelius. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The tenants have always made a living from it, and been able to send Jane a trifle beside, each year. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The same cause gradually led them to dismiss the unnecessary part of their tenants. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Power was supplied from a fifty-horse-power engine to other tenants on the several floors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The landlord kept going among his tenants and finally discovered the dynamo. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Our first effort must be to find who are the tenants of Charlington Hall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But this increase of rent could be got only by granting leases to their tenants, who thereby became, in a great measure, independent of them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There is not one of his tenants or servants but will give him a good name. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It was a room, not unacquainted with the black ladder under various tenants; but as neat, at present, as such a room could be. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- We were all tenants of his--that man's who stands there. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He quarrelled with his agents and screwed his tenants by letter. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The lands in America and the West Indies, indeed, are, in general, not tenanted nor leased out to farmers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- That the Hall is tenanted by Williamson. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The cottage is still tenanted, it said. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Unconscious that it was tenanted, he sat down on the step. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was nine o'clock, and the house, being tenanted by workers, already showed an awakened front to the street. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Typist: Marcus