tenant
Definition
- n. someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
- n. a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
- n. any occupant who dwells in a place
- v. occupy as a tenant
Word forms
- Past participle
- tenanted
- Past tense
- tenanted
- Present participle
- tenanting
- Third person singular
- tenants
Example sentences
n.
The tenant paid the rent on time each month.
vt.
They decided to tenant the apartment for a year.
n.
The tenant of the old building has lived there for decades.