tenant

noun/ˈtɛnənt/

Frequency rank: #5,516 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

a person who pays rent to use land, a building, or a room owned by someone else.

Illustration for the English word “tenant”

Example sentence

The tenant paid rent to the landlord every month without fail.

Synonyms & related words

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