Meaning of Tenant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who holds a lease (a tenancy).
2. A surname.
3. Misconstruction of tenet.
   alt-of, misconstruction
4. One who has possession of any place.
   broadly
5. Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
6. One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.
   historical
7. One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.
   broadly

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”

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