Usually means: Principle or belief held strongly.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word tenet:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tenet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tenet: Merriam-Webster
  3. tenet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tenet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tenet: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tenet: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tenet, tenet: Wordnik
  8. tenet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tenet: Wiktionary
  10. tenet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tenet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tenet: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tenet: Dictionary.com
  14. tenet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tenet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. TENET, Tenet (band), Tenet (disambiguation), Tenet (film), Tenet (metal band), Tenet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tenet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tenet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tenet: Rhymezone
  20. Tenet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tenet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. TENET: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. tenet: FreeDictionary.org
  24. tenet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. tenet: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. tenet: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tenet: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. TENET: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tenet: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.

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