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tenant

noun
/ˈtɛ.nənt/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from teneō — “hold, keep”
  2. derived from tenant
  3. derived from tenaunt
  4. inherited from tenaunt

Definitions

  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. 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; [...]

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

    • multi-tenant hosting
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.

    2. One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.

    3. To hold as, or be, a tenant.

    4. To inhabit.

      • His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes fastened at the side with rusty clasps.
      • They lived in palatial residences[…]their harems tenanted by numerous women[…]

    5. Misconstruction of tenet.

    6. A surname.

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Derived

anchor tenant, head tenant, joint tenant, kindly tenant, lead tenant, life tenant, multitenancy, nominated tenant, se-tenant, sitting tenant, sub-tenant, superior tenant, tenancy, tenant at will, tenant farmer, tenant-in-chief, tenant in common, tenantless, tenant-right, tenantry, tenant saw, Tenants Harbor, terre-tenant, ter-tenant, undertenant

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at tenant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at tenant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at tenant

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA