tenant

English

/ˈtɛ.nənt/

noun
Definitions
  • 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.
  • (legal) One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.
  • (computing) Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.

Etymology

Borrowed from tenaunt derived from Old French tenant derived from Latin tenēre (hold, have) root from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (stretch, draw, extend, pull, clench, flex).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*ten-

Gloss

stretch, draw, extend, pull, clench, flex

Concept
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Basic actions and technology

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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