tenant - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'tenant' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Tenant

[ n.]

- One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.
- One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.

2 . Tenant

[ v. t.]

- To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.

Meaning of 'tenant' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . tenant

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else

Example in sentence:

the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent

Nearby Words:

ten ten-o'clock ten-pounder ten-strike tenability tenable tenableness tenace tenacies tenacious

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Holdover Tenant
A Holdover Tenant stays inside the rented house after its contract ends without all the owner's express consent. These are deemed trespassers in the legal sense...

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