See Also: VERAY TENANT, or TRUE TENANT, Eng(law)
TERRE-TENANT, or improperly terre-tenant(law)
tenant(dictionary)
SUB-TENANT(law)
tenant(2)(dictionary)
tenant(1)(dictionary)
se-tenant(dictionary)
Tenant(finance)
AAA Tenant(money)
UNDER-TENANT(law)

tenant(1) (iou)



tenant noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French, use as noun of pres. pple of tenir to hold from Latin tenere to hold: see -ANT1.]
Law. A person who holds or possesses lands or tenements by any kind of right or title. ME.
A person who rents a piece of land, a house, etc., by lease for a set time. LME.
Listener Mrs Peggy Edwards, spokesperson for the local tenants' association. K. Vonnegut A man..had become a mere tenant in a building he used to own.
transf. & fig. A person who or thing which inhabits or occupies any place; an inhabitant, an occupant, a dweller. LME.
T. Campbell The dim-eyed tenant of the dungeon gloom.
Phrases: joint-tenant: see JOINT adjective. share tenant: see SHARE noun2. sitting tenant: see SITTING ppl adjective 4. STATUTORY tenant. tenant at will a tenant who is such under a tenancy at will. tenant PARAVAIL. tenant to the praecipe a tenant against whom a praecipe was brought, being one to whom an entailed estate had been granted so that it might be alienated by a recovery.
Comb.: tenant farmer a person who farms rented land; tenant right the rights or entitlements of a tenant; spec. the right of a tenant to continue a tenancy at the termination of the lease; tenant-righter colloq. an advocate or supporter of tenant right.
tenantless adjective L16.
tenantship noun the condition or position of a tenant; tenancy, occupancy: L19.