Definitions for tenantry

tenantry ten·ant·ry

Spelling: [ten-uh n-tree]
IPA: /ˈtɛn ən tri/

Tenantry is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in tenantry (aennrtty).

Definitions for tenantry

noun

  1. tenants collectively; the body of tenants on an estate.
  2. the state or condition of being a tenant.

Origin of tenantry

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at tenant, -ry

Examples for tenantry

Don't he be payin' the tenantry an' sayin' where is the trees to be felled?

That door had been opened but once during the late pastor's thirty-year tenantry.

Should your tenantry ask me—'why are you thus cruel and oppressive-upon us?'

This monster devoured the substance of the tenantry and yeomen.

The tenantry of the Texford property followed on horseback or foot.

I expect they will be from among his own tenantry; there's plenty of them, and they'll all have to do his bidding.

He had seen no Irishman of rank ever bestow a moment's attention on his tenantry.

But, above all things, the curse of a tenantry is a percentage agent.

Proceeding to the tenantry, the first in order happened to be Farmer Toft.

The tenantry are mostly Nationalist, if they can be said to be anything at all.

Word Value for tenantry
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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