tenant

Meanings

Noun

• One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.
• One who has possession of any place.
• Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
• One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.

Verb

• To hold as, or be, a tenant.
• To inhabit.

Origin

• From Middle English tenaunt, from Anglo-Norman tenaunt and Old French tenant, present participle of tenir, from Latin tenēre, present active infinitive of teneō.
• Possibly just a modification of tenet, but note obsolete tenent.