Tenant

Noun

 * 1) One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.
 * "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." &mdash; The Thing in the Upper Room by Arthur Morrison
 * 1) An occupant.
 * 2)  One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.

Synonyms

 * lessee

Derived terms

 * tenancy
 * tenantless
 * tenantry

Related terms

 * tenure‎

Verb

 * 1) To hold as, or be, a tenant.

Adjectives for Tenant
delinquent; peripatetic; impoverished; previous; worshipful; shuddering; defaulting; noisome; troublesome.

Thesaurus
abide, addressee, artist-in-residence, berth, board-and-roomer, boarder, bunk, cohabit, denizen, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, dwell, dweller, habitant, hang out, hirer, homesteader, house detective, incumbent, inhabit, inhabitant, inhabiter, inmate, inpatient, intern, leaseholder, lessee, live, live-in maid, locum tenens, lodge, lodger, nest, occupant, occupier, occupy, paying guest, people, perch, populate, remain, renter, reside, residencer, resident, resident physician, residentiary, resider, room, roomer, roost, sojourner, squat, squatter, stay, sublessee, subtenant, tenant at sufferance, tenant for life, transient, transient guest, underlessee

Etymology
First attested 1325, from tenaunt:, from  tenant:, present participle of tenir:, from  tenere:, present active infinitive of teneo:.

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 房客, 佃戶, 佃户, 租戶, 租户
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, vuokraaja, vuokramies,
 * French:
 * German:, Pächter
 * Greek: ενοικιαστής, μισθωτής
 * Hungarian: (only in The Middle Ages, villein)


 * Japanese: 借地人, 小作人
 * Norwegian: leieboer
 * Persian: مست, مستاجر
 * Polish: dzierżawca,
 * Portuguese: inquilino
 * Russian: арендатор, съёмщик, квартиросъёмщик
 * Serbian: станар, станарка


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 房客
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Bewohner, Mieter


 * Greek: ένοικος
 * Japanese: 借り主
 * Russian: жилец, квартиросъёмщик


 * Finnish: (kiinteistön)
 * Greek: νομέας, επικαρπωτής


 * Japanese: 賃借人, 賃借人


 * : huurder
 * : inquilino
 * : Arrendera
 * : stanar, zakupac
 * : nájomník, nájomca

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * Greek: ενοικιάζω, μισθώνω


 * Japanese: 土地を借りる

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Anagrams

 * entant

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