Tenant
Definition of Tenant
Ten´ant n. | 1. | (Law) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; - correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2. | | 2. | One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.Tenant in common | See under Common. - Blackstone. |
| v. t. | 1. | To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant. |
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abide, addressee, artist-in-residence, berth, board-and-roomer, boarder, bunk, cohabit, denizen, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, dwell, habitant, hang out, hirer, homesteader, house detective, incumbent, inhabit, inhabitant, inhabiter, inmate, inpatient, intern, live, live-in maid, locum tenens, lodge, nest, occupant, occupier, occupy, paying guest, people, perch, populate, remain, reside, residencer, resident, resident physician, residentiary, resider, room, roomer, roost, sojourner, squat, squatter, stay, sublessee, subtenant, tenant at sufferance, tenant for life, transient, transient guest, underlessee
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