Definition for Tenant:

• ten'ant, n. one who holds or possesses land or property under another, the payments and services which he owes to his superior constituting his tenure: one who has, on certain conditions, temporary possession of any place, an occupant.-- v.t. to hold as a tenant.-- n. TEN'ANCY, a holding by private ownership: a temporary holding of land or property by a tenant.-- adj. TEN'ANTABLE, fit to be tenanted: in a state of repair suitable for a tenant.-- n. TEN'ANT-FARM'ER, a farmer who rents a farm from the landlord.-- adj. TEN'ANTLESS, without a tenant.-- ns.

Synonyms for Tenant:

• n.

  •
  • landlady,
  • landholder,
  • landlord,
  • Homebuyer,
  • landowner,
  • homeowner.
  •guest (noun)
  • sojourner,
  • transient,
  • inmate,
  • sharer.
  •inhabitant (noun)
  • inhabitant,
  • occupant,
  • lodger,
  • native,
  • inmate,
  • squatter,
  • populace,
  • settler,
  • Resider,
  • citizen,
  • incumbent,
  • population,
  • colonist,
  • dweller,
  • aboriginal,
  • denizen,
  • resident.
  •renter (noun)
  • householder,
  • boarder,
  • leaseholder,
  • freeholder,
  • holder,
  • possessor,
  • rent payer,
  • tenant farmer,
  • roomer,
  • Les.
  •resident (noun)
  • Habitant,
  • local.
  •tenant (noun)
  • leaseholder,
  • occupier,
  • lodger,
  • occupant,
  • lessee,
  • Indweller,
  • possessor,
  • roomer,
  • rent payer,
  • boarder,
  • inhabitant,
  • renter,
  • dweller,
  • householder,
  • addressee,
  • holder,
  • resident.

• v.

  •dwell (verb)
  • occupy,
  • nest,
  • reside,
  • stay,
  • inhabit,
  • abide,
  • squat,
  • remain,
  • bunk,
  • sojourn,
  • room,
  • lodge,
  • roost.
  •inhabit (verb)
  • dwell,
  • indwell,
  • possess,
  • people,
  • perch,
  • live,
  • populate.
  •live (verb)
  • dwell.
  •occupy (verb)
  • keep,
  • involve,
  • live in,
  • fill,
  • pervade.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • guest,
  • occupy,
  • holder.
  •dwell
  • reside.
  •inhabit
  • indwell.
  •live in
  • dwell.
  •lodger
  • roomer.
  •occupy
  • live in.
  •planter
  • farmer.
  •Other relevant words:
  • islander,
  • locum tenens,
  • Sublessee,
  • bearer,
  • holder,
  • shareholder,
  • householder,
  • Subtenant,
  • perch,
  • owner,
  • cotenant,
  • stay,
  • sojourner,
  • inpatient,
  • tenants in common,
  • remain,
  • move into,
  • leaseholder,
  • intern,
  • liveable,
  • inhabit,
  • freeholder,
  • have,
  • engross,
  • planter,
  • people,
  • Backsettler,
  • Oppidan,
  • artist-in-residence,
  • hirer,
  • backwoodsman,
  • nestle,
  • life tenant,
  • cottier,
  • transient,
  • live,
  • conquer,
  • landlady,
  • employ,
  • Residentiary,
  • borrow,
  • burgher,
  • remunerator,
  • possessor,
  • abide,
  • roost,
  • rent payer,
  • landholder,
  • move in,
  • occupier,
  • absorb,
  • domiciliate,
  • cockney,
  • settle into,
  • seize,
  • cottager,
  • Les,
  • sojourn,
  • cohabit,
  • homesteader,
  • reside in,
  • popular,
  • pervade,
  • reside,
  • burgess,
  • capture,
  • local,
  • be located,
  • squat,
  • innkeeper,
  • farm hand,
  • partner,
  • landowner,
  • payer,
  • indwell,
  • tenant farmer,
  • doss down,
  • get,
  • sharer,
  • Participator,
  • fill,
  • extend,
  • boarder,
  • Resider,
  • farmer,
  • lessor,
  • nest,
  • husbandman,
  • invade,
  • compatriot,
  • Indweller,
  • livable,
  • colonist,
  • lessee,
  • case,
  • keep,
  • possess,
  • container,
  • resident physician,
  • proprietor,
  • Homebuyer,
  • Habitant,
  • take,
  • squatter,
  • involve,
  • settler,
  • rack,
  • roomer,
  • engage,
  • renter,
  • house detective,
  • rentable,
  • vassal,
  • bunk,
  • agriculturist,
  • settle in,
  • Tenantable,
  • townsman,
  • lodge,
  • paying guest,
  • dwell in,
  • room,
  • hang out,
  • homeowner,
  • Inhabiter,
  • villager,
  • domicile,
  • cotter,
  • Cit,
  • guest,
  • berth,
  • Commorant,
  • Zemindar,
  • Ryot,
  • addressee,
  • co-partner,
  • populate,
  • dwell,
  • live in,
  • carrier,
  • occupy.

Antonyms for Tenant:

• n.

  • occupant
    displaced person.
  • tenant
    landlord.
  • Other antonyms:
    exile, transient, nonresident, expatriate, foreigner, landlady, evacuee, emigrant, landholder, alien, host, innkeeper, Escaper, visitor, tourist, letter, landowner, defector, lessor, slumlord, refugee, laird, proprietor.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    freeholder, owner.

• v.

  • inhabit
    move, vacate, depart, leave.
  • occupy
    not use.