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[Verb] | "tenant"

1: to hold or occupy as or as if as a tenant : inhabit

Origin: 1634 ;

Derivative of {see: |tenant:1|tenant:1};

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[Noun] | "ten*ant" | \ ˈte-nənt \

1: one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another; specifically : one who rents or leases a dwelling (such as a house) from a landlord

2: one who holds or possesses real estate or sometimes personal property (such as a security) by any kind of right

3: occupant, dweller

Origin: 14th century ;

Middle English tenaunt, tenant, borrowed from Anglo-French, "holder (of land under various circumstances)," noun derivative from present participle of tenir "to hold, have possession of," going back (with conjugation change) to Latin tenēre "to hold, occupy, possess," probably derivative, with the stative suffix *-h1i̯é- (with zero-grade ablaut) of the Indo-European verbal base *ten- "stretch, extend," whence, from a present-tense derivative *tn̥-neu̯/nu-, Sanskrit tanóti "(it) extends, spreads, endures," Greek tánytai "(s/he) stretches, extends, bends (a bow)," Welsh tannu, tanu "to spread, extend"; from a causative derivative *ton-éi̯e-, Sanskrit -tānayati "(it) extends," Germanic *þanjan- "to stretch" (whence Old English þennan "to stretch," Old Saxon thennian, Old High German dennen, Old Norse þenja, Gothic ufþanjan "to overextend"); from a present-tense derivative *ten-i̯e-, Greek teínein "to stretch, extend, spread, aim at," with verbal adjective tatós, action noun tásis, both from zero-grade *tn̥-t-;

* Note : This explanation of Latin tenēre is conventional, though the shift of sense (from "stretch, extend" to "extend the arm" to "grasp, hold"?) is not paralleled in other languages. Latin has no outcome of the Indo-European verb-stem formatives based on *ten- attested in other families (shown in the etymology above), having replaced *ten- in transitive/telic functions with the base *tend- (see: {tender:3|tender:3}). Derivatives with the stative suffix *-h1i̯é- regularly take zero-grade ablaut, which may be reflected in tenēre, though it could equally reflect full-grade *ten-. It is claimed that Umbrian tenitu (3rd singular imperative), apparently a counterpart within Italic to Latin tenēre, must reflect *ten- (apparently on the assumption that zero grade would result in *tan-; see: Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages, Leiden, 2008).;

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[Noun] | "co*ten*ant" | \ (ˌ)kō-ˈte-nənt \

1: one who is a tenant along with one or more other tenants

Origin: 1856 ;

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[Verb] | "tenants"

1: as in leases, rents;

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[Noun] | "tenants"

1: one who rents a room or apartment in another's house;

* e.g., " ... the laundry in the basement is for tenants only "

Antonyms :
landlords,
lessors,
letters

2: one who lives permanently in a place;

* e.g., " ... the abandoned warehouse's only tenants are a band of squatters "

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[Noun] | "tenant"

1: one who rents a room or apartment in another's house;

* e.g., " ... the laundry in the basement is for tenants only "

Antonyms :
landlord,
lessor,
letter

2: one who lives permanently in a place;

* e.g., " ... the abandoned warehouse's only tenants are a band of squatters "

Antonyms :
transient

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[Noun] | "cotenants"

1: as in subtenants;

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