Meaning of Tenant | Babel Free
ˈtɛ.nəntDefinitions
- One who holds a lease (a tenancy).
- A surname.
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Misconstruction of tenet. alt-of, misconstruction
- One who has possession of any place.
- Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
- One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.
- One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.
Equivalents
Examples
“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?”
“multi-tenant hosting”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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