tenant

noun

1. 1

   One who holds a lease (a tenancy).

   Long even before the last tenant had occupied it, the room had been regarded with fear and aversion, and the end of that last tenant had in no way lightened the gloom that hung about the place.

   You are just a tenant here, you say / Living in and out of this life / As cheaply as you can

2. 2

   One who has possession of any place.

   c. 1782-1783, William Cowper, Joy in Martyrdom sweet tenants of this grove

   the happy tenant of your shade

   But not in silence pass Calypso's isles, / The sister tenants of the middle deep; [...]

   What words are these have fall’n from me? ⁠Can calm despair and wild unrest ⁠Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

3. 3

   Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.

   multi-tenant hosting

4. 4

   historicalOne who holds a feudal tenure in real property.

5. 5

   One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.

verb

1. 1

   To hold as, or be, a tenant.

2. 2

   To inhabit.

   His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes fastened at the side with rusty clasps.

   The felling of dense and lofty forests, which covered, even within the records of history, a considerable space on the globe, now tenanted by civilized man, must generally have lessened the amount of vegetable food throughout the space where these woods grew.

   They lived in palatial residences[…]their harems tenanted by numerous women[…]

noun

1. 1

   Variant of tenetMisconstruction of tenet.

Forms

plural

tenants

past tense

tenanted

past participle

tenanted

present participle

tenanting

third person singular

tenants