Usually means: Occupant who rents a property.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word tenant:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. tenant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tenant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tenant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tenant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tenant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tenant, tenant: Wordnik
  7. tenant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Tenant, tenant: Wiktionary
  9. tenant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tenant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tenant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tenant: Dictionary.com
  13. tenant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tenant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tenant, The Tenant (novel), The Tenant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tenant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tenant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tenant: Rhymezone
  19. tenant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tenant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tenant: Free Dictionary
  22. tenant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tenant: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. tenant: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. tenant: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. tenant: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Tenant: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  9. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  10. tenant: Finance-Glossary.com
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  13. tenant: Legal dictionary
  14. tenant: Financial dictionary
  15. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tenant: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. TENANT, TENANT, TENANT: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tenant: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tenant: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tenantable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who holds a lease (a tenancy).
noun:  (by extension) One who has possession of any place.
noun:  (computing) Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
noun:  (chiefly historical) One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.
noun:  (property law, by extension) One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.
verb:  To hold as, or be, a tenant.
verb:  (transitive) To inhabit.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Misconstruction of tenet [An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.]

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