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6-letter words (1 found)

TENANT,

5-letter words (1 found)

ANENT,

4-letter words (10 found)

ANTE,ETAT,ETNA,NANE,NEAT,NETT,TANE,TATE,TEAT,TENT,

3-letter words (18 found)

ANE,ANN,ANT,ATE,ATT,EAN,EAT,ETA,NAE,NAN,NAT,NET,TAE,TAN,TAT,TEA,TEN,TET,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AN,AT,EA,EN,ET,NA,NE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 41 words from tenant according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tenant

tenant

Alternative forms

  • tenaunt, tennant, tennaunt (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tenaunt, from Anglo-Norman tenaunt and Old French tenant, present participle of tenir (“to hold”), from Latin tenēre, present active infinitive of teneō (“hold, keep”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛ.nənt/, enPR: tĕnənt
  • Rhymes: -ɛnənt

Noun

tenant (plural tenants)

  1. One who holds a lease (a tenancy).
    Synonyms: renter, lessee, (rare) rentee
    Hyponyms: subtenant, undertenant, sublessee, underlessee
  2. (by extension) One who has possession of any place.
    Synonyms: dweller, occupant
    • c. 1782-1783, William Cowper, Joy in Martyrdom
      sweet tenants of this grove
  3. (computing) Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
  4. (chiefly historical) One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.
  5. (property law, by extension) One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • tenement
Translations
See also
  • tenet

Verb

tenant (third-person singular simple present tenants, present participle tenanting, simple past and past participle tenanted)

  1. To hold as, or be, a tenant.
    Synonym: lodge
  2. (transitive) To inhabit.
Translations

Etymology 2

Possibly just a modification of tenet, but note obsolete tenent (“tenet”).

Noun

tenant

  1. Misconstruction of tenet

Anagrams

  • -netant, Annett

Cebuano

Etymology

From English tenant, borrowed from Anglo-Norman tenaunt, from Old French tenant, present participle of tenir (“to hold”), from Latin tenēre, present active infinitive of teneō (“hold, keep”). Doublet of tener and tinidor.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: te‧nant

Noun

tenant

  1. a tenant; one who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others
  2. one who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant
  3. (law) one who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership

French

Etymology

Present participle of tenir. From Old French tenant; corresponding to Latin tenentem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tə.nɑ̃/

Noun

tenant m (plural tenants)

  1. advocate, supporter
  2. a single contiguous piece, especially of land
    d’un seul tenant ― in one piece, in a single holding
  3. (in the plural) the land adjoining a property along its longer sides
    Antonym: aboutissants
  4. (historical) tenant, holder (host of a medieval tournament who took on challengers)
  5. (law, dated) tenant (holder of a lease)
  6. (heraldry) supporter

Derived terms

  • tenants et aboutissants
  • tenants et aboutissements

Participle

tenant

  1. present participle of tenir

Related terms

  • lieutenant

Further reading

  • “tenant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • entant

Old French

Alternative forms

  • tenaunt (Anglo-Norman, noun, adjective, verb)

Etymology

From the verb tenir (“to hold; to possess”); corresponding to Latin tenens, tenentem.

Noun

tenant oblique singular, m (oblique plural tenanz or tenantz, nominative singular tenanz or tenantz, nominative plural tenant)

  1. holder
  2. possessor (of land or property); tenant

Adjective

tenant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tenant or tenante)

  1. holder; owner (attributively)
  2. sticky; adhesive
  3. strong (of an object, etc.)

Verb

tenant

  1. present participle of tenir

Descendants

  • → English: tenant
  • French: tenant

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (tenant)
  • tenant on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English tenant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛnant/

Noun

tenant m (plural tenantiaid)

  1. tenant

Derived terms

  • tenantiaeth (“tenancy”)

Mutation

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tenant”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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