tenant
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
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Etymology: From Middle English tenaunt, from Anglo-Norman tenaunt and Old French tenant, present participle of tenir (“to hold”), from Latin tenēre (“hold, keep”).
Inflected forms:
form: tenants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tenaunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: tennant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: tennaunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: tenants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tenanting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tenanted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tenanted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tenaunt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: tennant
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: tennaunt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: One who holds a lease (a tenancy).
pos: noun
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
gloss: One who has possession of any place.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: 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?
gloss: Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
pos: noun
examples: multi-tenant hosting
gloss: One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: To hold as, or be, a tenant.
pos: verb
gloss: To inhabit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes fastened at the side with rusty clasps.
The felling of dense and lofty forests, which covered, even within the records of history, a considerable space on the globe, now tenanted by civilized man, must generally have lessened the amount of vegetable food throughout the space where these woods grew.
They lived in palatial residences[…]their harems tenanted by numerous women[…]
Related words: tenement
tenet
Derived words: anchor tenant
cotenant
head tenant
joint tenant
kindly tenant
lead tenant
life tenant
multitenancy
multitenant
nominated tenant
nontenant
protenant
se-tenant
sitting tenant
sub-tenant
superior tenant
tenancy
tenantable
tenant at will
tenant farmer
tenant-in-chief
tenant in common
tenantism
tenantless
tenantlike
tenant-right
tenantry
tenant saw
Tenants Harbor
tenantship
terre-tenant
ter-tenant
under-tenant
undertenant
untenant
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: со́бственик
roman: sóbstvenik
lang: Czech
word: vlastník
lang: Dutch
word: eigenaar
lang: Finnish
word: (kiinteistön) haltija
lang: German
word: Eigentümer
lang: German
word: Besitzer
lang: Greek
word: νομέας
roman: noméas
lang: Greek
word: επικαρπωτής
roman: epikarpotís
lang: Hungarian
word: tulajdonos
lang: Irish
word: tionónta
lang: Japanese
word: 賃借人
roman: chinshaku-nin
lang: Japanese
word: 賃借人
roman: chingari-nin
lang: Russian
word: владелец
roman: vladelec
lang: Russian
word: собственник
roman: sobstvennik
lang: Spanish
word: propietario
lang: Spanish
word: dueño
lang: Turkish
word: sahip
lang: Vietnamese
word: chủ sở hữu