Law. With qualifications indicating the species of tenure, the relation between lord and tenant, etc., as customary tenant, kindly tenant, mesne t…

One who holds a piece of land, a house, etc., by lease for a term of years or a set time. (The ordinary current sense. Correlative to landlord.)

A person who occupies a property in return for rent; a tenant farmer, esp. one who pays rent in money rather than in kind; (also) a cottager (see…

A person who holds something on lease; a leaseholder or lessee. Now historical.

A person who pays rent for land, a house, etc.

Chiefly Law. A person who takes possession, esp. of land; (also) a person who becomes the holder of property by taking out a lease. Often with first…

One who holds a fee-farm.

A person who leases something, esp. land or a property, from another; a person to whom a lease is granted; a tenant under a lease. Cf. lessor, n.

a person who pays rent, a tenant.

One who holds a tack or lease of land, a watermill, coal-mines, fisheries, tithes, customs, or anything farmed or leased; a lessee; esp. in the…

A person who holds land on a rental; a ‘kindly’ tenant (see kindly, adj. 2a).

= farmer, n.2 3a 3b.

The holder of a tenement; a lease-holder or tenant. frank-tenementer = freeholder, n.

A tenant.

= fee-farmer, n.

one who possesses leasehold property.

One who takes on lease; a lessee.