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say it: TEN-uhnt
tenant is a noun and verb meaning "someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else". It carries 4 recorded senses.
someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
“the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent”
a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
any occupant who dwells in a place
occupy as a tenant
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tenant come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.