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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary ten·ant \\ˈte-nənt\\ noun ETYMOLOGY Middle English, from Anglo-French, from present participle of tenir to hold DATE 14th century 1.
a. one who holds or possesses real estate or sometimes personal property (as a security) by any kind of right
b. one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another; specifically : one who rents or leases (as a house) from a landlord2. occupant , dweller
• ten·ant·less \\-ləs\\ adjectivetransitive verb DATE 1634 : to hold or occupy as or as if as a tenant : inhabit
• ten·ant·able \\-nən-tə-bəl\\ adjective tenant
early 14c., "person who holds lands by title or by lease," from Anglo-Fr. tenaunt (late 13c.), O.Fr. tenant (12c.), noun use of prp. of tenir "to hold," from L. tenere "hold, keep" (see tenet). Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 tenantten·ant / 5tenEnt / noun a person who pays rent for the use of a room, building, land, etc. to the person who owns it 房客；租户；佃户:
They had evicted their tenants for non-payment of rent. 他们赶走了未交房租的房客。
The decorating was done by a previous tenant. 装修是一位前房客搞的。
tenant farmers (= ones who do not own their own farms) 佃农 verb [VN]
[usually passive] to live or work in a place as a tenant (作为租赁者)居住,工作:
a tenanted farm 租种的农场 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English Oxford Collocations dictionary for students of Englishtenant
noun ADJ. current, existing, sitting the sale of council houses to sitting tenants | life | protected, secure | joint | potential, prospective | business, council, council-house, housing association, local authority, private VERB + TENANT find | evict TENANT + VERB occupy sth The property is currently occupied by a life tenant. TENANT + NOUN farmer PHRASES landlord and tenant conflicts that might arise between landlord and tenant Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged Search result show the entry is found in: joint tenant , or kindly tenant , or life tenant , or particular tenant , or se tenant , or share-tenant , or statutory tenant , or tenant at sufferance , or tenant at will , or tenant by copy of court roll , or tenant by curtesy initiate , or tenant by the entirety , or tenant farmer , or tenant hair , or tenant in capite , or tenant in common , or tenant right , or terre-tenant , or tenant by the verge , or tenant in chief , or cash tenant , or frank tenant
ten·antI. \ˈtenənt\ noun
( -s) Etymology: Middle English tenaunt, tenant, from Middle French tenant, from present participle of tenir to hold — more at tenable 1.
a. : one who holds or possesses real estate or sometimes personal property (as an annuity) by any kind of right (as in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will)
b. : one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; specifically : one who rents or leases (as land or a house) from a landlord 2. : one that has possession of a place : dweller , inhabitant , occupant
< it is the tenants of this upper gallery who … make all the noise and uproar — Eugene Burr >
< grass is the best possible tenant for our far-spread domain of retired and resting lands — C.E.Wilson >II. verb
( -ed/-ing/-s) transitive verb: to hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant : inhabit
< won some measure of relief by being allowed to tenant the bogs — Irish Digest >
< broad and pleasant meadow … tenanted by the summer camps of the shepherds — Douglas Carruthers >intransitive verb: to occupy a place as a tenant
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