A tenant is someone who pays rent for the place they live in, or for land or buildings that they use.
Regulations placed clear obligations on the landlord for the benefit of the tenant.
Landowners frequently left the management of their estates to tenant farmers.
Synonyms: leaseholder, resident, renter, occupant More Synonyms of tenant
2. See also sitting tenant
tenant in British English
(ˈtɛnənt)
noun
1.
a person who holds, occupies, or possesses land or property by any kind of right or title, esp from a landlord under a lease
2.
a person who has the use of a house, flat, etc, subject to the payment of rent
3.
any holder or occupant
verb
4. (transitive)
to hold (land or property) as a tenant
5. (intransitive; foll byin) rare
to dwell
Derived forms
tenantable (ˈtenantable)
adjective
tenantless (ˈtenantless)
adjective
tenant-like (ˈtenant-ˌlike)
adjective
Word origin
C14: from Old French, literally: (one who is) holding, from tenir to hold, from Latin tenēre
tenant in American English
(ˈtɛnənt)
noun
1.
a person who pays rent to occupy or use land, a building, etc.
2.
an occupant of or dweller in a specified place
3.
a person who possesses lands, etc. by any kind of title
verb transitive
4.
to hold as a tenant; occupy
Derived forms
tenantable (ˈtenantable)
adjective
tenantless (ˈtenantless)
adjective
Word origin
ME tenaunt < OFr tenant, orig. prp. of tenir, to hold < L tenere, to hold < IE base *ten-, to pull, stretch > thin
tenant in Insurance
(tɛnənt)
Word forms: (regular plural) tenants
noun
(Insurance: Residence insurance)
A tenant is someone who lives in a house or room and pays rent to the person who owns it.
Accidental damage covers damage caused to a property by a tenant, which does not occur as a result of normal wear and tear.
Rent insurance covers a landlord if a fire or other insured event makes it impossibleto collect rent from a tenant until the building has been replaced or repaired.
A tenant is someone who lives in a house or room and pays rent to the person who owns it.
Examples of 'tenant' in a sentence
tenant
The tenants of the flat above are very noisy.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Between the landlords and tenants a new breed of letting agent has sprung up.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
The hardest thing for new tenants could be getting used to all that space when they walk through their two front doors.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Ministers made the surprise announcement last night that higher rents for social housing tenants on above-average incomes would not be compulsory.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
I have known tenants to withhold rent over similar issues, but this usually ends in unpleasant conflict.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Landlords, like tenants, are already paying through the nose for the services of letting agents.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
As more landlords take in tenants on benefits, and with changes being made to payments, some agencies are having difficulty collecting rents.
The Sun (2016)
The monster lived on the top floor with tenants in other flats.
The Sun (2008)
To let is a landlord allowing a tenant to use land or property.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Many council house tenants were given significant incentives and discounts to buy their own home.
Tondeur, Keith Say Goodbye to Debt (1994)
Landlords will also suffer if tenants cannot pay their rent.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
This is thought to be a reference to tenants on housing benefit.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Until recently company and business tenants often lived in hotels and holiday lets while on secondment.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
This place needs a tenant with an eye for aesthetics and the inclination to show it off.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We intend to give landlords the option to charge these tenants a fair rent.
The Sun (2014)
These schemes deal with complaints made by tenants or landlords about agents and they can award compensation.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The new tenant could hardly have been more different in character.
Brian Thompson DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America (2004)
But they are increasingly being used by unscrupulous landlords to hold tenants to ransom.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
My wife let a property to a tenant who paid the council tax.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
We employed a letting agent to find a tenant but have decided to manage the property ourselves.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
This switch was favorable to tenants who leased large farms.
Shubert, Adrian A Social History of Modern Spain (1991)
The council will also use the scheme to relax its ban on tenants of flats keeping dogs.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It gave leasehold tenants of houses the right to purchase the freehold.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The risk is that landlords will shun all tenants on housing benefit.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Social tenants live in homes that are let at low rents to people in housing need.
The Sun (2013)
Most landlords will be more enthusiastic about keeping hold of a good tenant than hiking rents.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The landlord and tenant relationship can be tricky and it definitely takes two to tango.
The Sun (2013)
She warns that landlords should also be careful about hiking rents when they have good tenants in place.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Tenants have to pay this but if a commercial property is empty for more than three months the landlord is liable.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In this sense, they are tenants on the land.
Sanderson, Stephen K. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies (1995)
In other languages
tenant
British English: tenant /ˈtɛnənt/ NOUN
A tenant is someone who pays rent for the place they live in, or for land or buildings that they use.
...the obligations of a landlord to the tenant.
American English: tenant
Arabic: مُسْتَأْجِر
Brazilian Portuguese: inquilino
Chinese: 房客
Croatian: stanar
Czech: nájemník
Danish: lejer
Dutch: huurder
European Spanish: inquilino
Finnish: vuokralainen
French: locataire
German: Mieter
Greek: ένοικος
Italian: inquilino
Japanese: 賃借人
Korean: 세입자
Norwegian: leietaker
Polish: dzierżawca
European Portuguese: inquilino
Romanian: chiriaș
Russian: арендатор
Latin American Spanish: inquilino
Swedish: hyresgäst
Thai: ผู้เช่า
Turkish: kiracı
Ukrainian: орендар
Vietnamese: người thuê nhà
All related terms of 'tenant'
se tenant
denoting two postage stamps of different face values and sometimes of different designs in an unseparated pair
decant tenant
a person who has had to leave their previous accommodation while it is being rebuilt or refurbished
tenant farmer
a person who farms land rented from another, the rent usually taking the form of part of the crops grown or livestock reared
council tenant
a tenant who rents a council house or council flat
sitting tenant
A sitting tenant is a person who rents a house or flat as their home and has a legal right to live there.
customary tenant
a tenant occupying a property under the customs of the manor , often a low-status tenant with little security of tenure
tenant-in-chief
(in feudal society ) a tenant who held some or all of his lands directly from the king
tenant in common
someone who owns a property with one or more other people, and the person dies , their share of the ownership usually passes to their heirs rather than the other owners
rentaller
a tenant who rents property, usually for life, on very favourable terms
joint tenancy
ownership of property by two or more persons, each having an undivided interest in the entire property and → survivorship (sense 2 )
Chinese translation of 'tenant'
tenant
(ˈtɛnənt)
n(c)
房客 (fángkè) (个(個), gè)
(noun)
Definition
any holder or occupant
obligations on the landlord for the benefit of the tenant
Synonyms
leaseholder
resident
council house residents purchasing their own homes
renter
occupant
Most of the occupants had left before the fire broke out.
holder
inhabitant
the inhabitants of Glasgow
occupier
A form will be sent to the current occupier of the address.
lodger
She took in a lodger to help with the mortgage.
boarder
lessee
Additional synonyms
in the sense of inhabitant
Definition
a person or animal that is a permanent resident of a particular place or region
the inhabitants of Glasgow
Synonyms
occupant,
resident,
citizen,
local,
native,
tenant,
inmate,
dweller,
occupier,
denizen,
indigene,
indweller
in the sense of lodger
Definition
a person who pays rent in return for accommodation in someone else's home
She took in a lodger to help with the mortgage.
Synonyms
tenant,
roomer,
guest,
resident,
boarder,
paying guest
in the sense of occupant
Definition
a person occupying a property, position, or place
Most of the occupants had left before the fire broke out.
Synonyms
occupier,
resident,
tenant,
user,
holder,
inmate,
inhabitant,
incumbent,
dweller,
denizen,
addressee,
lessee,
indweller
Synonyms of 'tenant'
tenant
Explore 'tenant' in the dictionary
Additional synonyms
in the sense of occupier
Definition
the person who lives in a particular house, whether as owner or tenant
A form will be sent to the current occupier of the address.
Synonyms
tenant,
resident,
renter,
inhabitant,
occupant,
leaseholder,
lessee
in the sense of resident
Definition
a person who lives in a place
council house residents purchasing their own homes