Definitions for tenant

tenant ten·ant

Spelling: [ten-uh nt]
IPA: /ˈtɛn ənt/

Tenant is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in tenant (aenntt).

Definitions for tenant

noun

  1. a person or group that rents and occupies land, a house, an office, or the like, from another for a period of time; lessee.
  2. Law. a person who holds or possesses for a time lands, tenements, or personalty of another, usually for rent.
  3. an occupant or inhabitant of any place.

verb (used with object)

  1. to hold or occupy as a tenant; dwell in; inhabit.

verb (used without object)

  1. to dwell or live (usually followed by in).

Origin of tenant

1250-1300; Middle English tena(u)nt Anglo-French; Middle French tenant, noun use of present participle of tenir to hold ≪ Latin tenēre. See -ant

Examples for tenant

Phineas has just suffered the defeat of his bill to strengthen the rights of Irish tenant farmers.

In another instance, Sharif told a court he didn't hit a tenant from whom his brother and he were trying to collect back rent.

From something in your last, I would wish to explain my idea of being your tenant.

She was betrothed to a good young man, too: a tenant of his.

No tenant could be found for the place, which was avoided as if the plague still clung to it.

It occurs after Phineas has just suffered the defeat of his bill to improve the condition of Irish tenant farmers.

He said to police, the tenant's "face could have run into my hand."

The last I heard of him, he was the tenant of a western penitentiary.

But the law itself is hard to enforce unless there is a specific complaint about a tenant.

I have no foolish notion of being a tenant on easier terms than another.

Word Value for tenant
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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