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单词 tenant
释义

tenant

1 of 2

noun

ten·​ant ˈte-nənt How to pronounce tenant (audio)
1
a
: one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another
specifically : one who rents or leases a dwelling (such as a house) from a landlord
b
: one who holds or possesses real estate or sometimes personal property (such as a security) by any kind of right
2
: occupant, dweller
tenantless
ˈte-nənt-ləs How to pronounce tenant (audio)
adjective

tenant

2 of 2

verb

tenanted; tenanting; tenants

transitive verb

: to hold or occupy as or as if as a tenant : inhabit
tenantable
ˈte-nən-tə-bəl How to pronounce tenant (audio)
adjective

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Tenets vs. Tenants

Thanks to its confusingly similar pronunciation, tenant (“occupant, land-holder”) is sometimes erroneously used in place of tenet (“principle, doctrine”). Consider this example:

One of the ancient tenants of the Buddist [sic] belief is, “He who sits still, wins” –Police, January/February 1968

You will probably never make the opposite mistake (that is, substitute tenet for tenant), but if you think you might, remember that tenant and occupant both end in -ant.

Synonyms

Noun

  • boarder
  • lessee
  • lodger
  • renter
  • roomer
See all Synonyms & Antonyms

Example Sentences

Noun A tenant is now leasing the apartment. the laundry in the basement is for tenants only
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
In July, a Phoenix constable shot and killed a tenant while serving a notice. Catherine Reagor, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2022 With landlords typically requiring a tenant to earn 40 times the monthly rent in a year, that would allow those teachers to spend up to $1,679/month in an area where 1-bedroom apartments on average go for approximately $3,000/month. Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2022 First, an attacker needs to set up a Microsoft cloud account, known as a tenant, and set it to have admin controls over any machines that are assigned to it. WIRED, 4 Sep. 2022 Rent control protections and AB 1482 also don’t prevent California landlords from hiking up rental prices once a previous tenant moves out. Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022 That day, a tenant at a Minneapolis apartment complex complained about a leak, according to a criminal complaint. María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022 Multiple outlets report Martinez was attempting to serve an eviction notice to a tenant at a downtown Tucson, Ariz., apartment complex just after 11 a.m. Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 26 Aug. 2022 The owner of 2nd Bridge told Strano that a food-industry tenant had outgrown their space and announced plans to move to a larger facility. Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 17 Aug. 2022 The landlord-sympathetic view is that taxes are so high if these buildings are left empty that owners can’t hang around waiting for a better-quality tenant. Alexander Smith, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2022
Verb
Still, landlords are including concessions to get deals, offering abatements and tenant improvement allowances. Natalie Wong, Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2022 With that deadline fast approaching and politicians so far unresponsive to tenant advocates’ calls for another extension, renters and small landlords report widespread confusion and fear about falling through the cracks. Lauren Hepler, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2022 Should cities such as San Francisco give legal recognition to tenant unions? Will Parker, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2022 By 2020, similar units at the complex rented for approximately $1,200 per month, according to leases and tenant payment records reviewed by The Post. Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2022 Those left out Sylvia Kuster and her husband Skip currently lease most of their nearly 400-acre property to tenant farmers. cincinnati.com, 16 Sep. 2021 Penney has moved out of the buildings, leaving the offices currently 13% leased to tenant NTT Data. Steve Brown, Dallas News, 27 May 2021 The big shipping hub is fully leased to tenant Petmate, an online pet supply company owned by Doskocil Manufacturing. Steve Brown, Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2020 The city got behind these efforts, transferring the title of dozens of buildings to tenant organizations that created co-ops. Matthew Desmond, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English tenaunt, tenant, borrowed from Anglo-French, "holder (of land under various circumstances)," noun derivative from present participle of tenir "to hold, have possession of," going back (with conjugation change) to Latin tenēre "to hold, occupy, possess," probably derivative, with the stative suffix *-h1i̯é- (with zero-grade ablaut) of the Indo-European verbal base *ten- "stretch, extend," whence, from a present-tense derivative *tn̥-neu̯/nu-, Sanskrit tanóti "(it) extends, spreads, endures," Greek tánytai "(s/he) stretches, extends, bends (a bow)," Welsh tannu, tanu "to spread, extend"; from a causative derivative *ton-éi̯e-, Sanskrit -tānayati "(it) extends," Germanic *þanjan- "to stretch" (whence Old English þennan "to stretch," Old Saxon thennian, Old High German dennen, Old Norse þenja, Gothic ufþanjan "to overextend"); from a present-tense derivative *ten-i̯e-, Greek teínein "to stretch, extend, spread, aim at," with verbal adjective tatós, action noun tásis, both from zero-grade *tn̥-t-

Note: This explanation of Latin tenēre is conventional, though the shift of sense (from "stretch, extend" to "extend the arm" to "grasp, hold"?) is not paralleled in other languages. Latin has no outcome of the Indo-European verb-stem formatives based on *ten- attested in other families (shown in the etymology above), having replaced *ten- in transitive/telic functions with the base *tend- (see tender entry 3). Derivatives with the stative suffix *-h1i̯é- regularly take zero-grade ablaut, which may be reflected in tenēre, though it could equally reflect full-grade *ten-. It is claimed that Umbrian tenitu (3rd singular imperative), apparently a counterpart within Italic to Latin tenēre, must reflect *ten- (apparently on the assumption that zero grade would result in *tan-; see Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages, Leiden, 2008).

Verb

derivative of tenant entry 1

First Known Use

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1b

Verb

1634, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

tenant 1 of 2

noun

ten·​ant ˈte-nənt How to pronounce tenant (audio)
: a person or business that rents property from its owner

tenant

2 of 2

verb

tenanted; tenanting
: to hold or live in as a renter

Legal Definition

tenant

noun

ten·​ant ˈte-nənt How to pronounce tenant (audio)
: one who holds or possesses property by any kind of right : one who holds a tenancy in property
specifically : one who possesses property in exchange for payment of rent see also lessee compare tenancy

History and Etymology for tenant

Anglo-French, from Old French, from present participle of tenir to hold, from Latin tenēre

tenant 1 of 2

noun

1
as in lessee
one who rents a room or apartment in another's house the laundry in the basement is for tenants only

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • lessee
  • renter
  • lodger
  • visitor
  • subtenant
  • resident
  • roommate
  • occupant
  • cotenant
  • guest
  • roomer
  • boarder
  • occupier
  • flatmate
  • resider
  • roomie

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • landlord
  • lessor
  • letter
  • landowner
  • proprietor
  • landlady
  • landholder
  • laird
  • proprietor
  • host
  • slumlord
  • innkeeper
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2
as in occupant
one who lives permanently in a place the abandoned warehouse's only tenants are a band of squatters

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • occupant
  • resident
  • inhabitant
  • resider
  • inhabiter
  • citizen
  • dweller
  • habitant
  • native
  • denizen
  • cohabitant
  • aborigine
  • coresident
  • national
  • émigré
  • migrant
  • colonist
  • newcomer
  • settler
  • burgher
  • local
  • townsman
  • emigré
  • villager
  • subject
  • localite
  • towny
  • townie
  • townee

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • visitor
  • guest
  • transient
  • foreigner
  • alien
  • tourist
  • nonresident
  • refugee
  • expatriate
  • emigrant
  • exile
  • evacuee
  • escaper
  • defector
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tenant

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verb

as in to lease

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • lease
  • rent
  • sublet
  • people
  • occupy
  • populate
  • frequent
  • haunt
  • inhabit
  • cohabit
  • live
  • stay
  • lodge
  • visit
  • hang (at)
  • reside
  • dwell
  • abide
  • settle
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