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# tenant

noun (a tenant, tenants); verb (tenant, tenants, tenanted — rare, formal)

«tenant» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A tenant is a person who pays rent to live in a house or flat, or to use land or a building, that belongs to someone else (the landlord). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenant/#m1)
2. (law) Anyone who has the right to use a property for a time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenant/#m2)
3. (rare, formal) To tenant a place is to live in it as a tenant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenant/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday adult life families are either owners or tenants (renters); tenants pay rent each month to a landlord. In maths problems a tenant's rent is a regular payment to add up. In history and stories, tenant farmers worked land owned by a lord. Phrases: «tenant and landlord», «the previous tenants», «a tenant farmer», «tenants' rights».

### Examples

- We are tenants, so we pay rent to the landlord. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenant/#x1)
- The new tenants moved in next door yesterday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenant/#x2)
- A tenant must look after the flat and pay the rent on time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenant/#x3)
- The landlord fixed the boiler for his tenants. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenant/#x4)
- If a tenant pays four hundred pounds a month, how much is that in a year? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenant/#x5)
- Long ago, tenant farmers gave part of their crops to the lord. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenant/#x6)
- The shop is empty and needs a new tenant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenant/#x7)
- The shop itself he sold also, and easily found a tenant for his private house. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenant/#x8)

### Note

Countable. Opposite: landlord (or landlady). In the USA people also say «renter». Do not confuse «tenant» with «tenet» (a belief or principle). Maths: rent per month × 12 = rent per year.

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: The law says such a guest could not eat holy food, which only the priest's own household could eat. In the primary lessons: In everyday adult life families are either owners or tenants (renters); tenants pay rent each month to a landlord. In maths problems a tenant's rent is a regular payment to add up. In history and stories, tenant farmers worked land owned by a lord. Phrases: «tenant and landlord», «the previous tenants», «a tenant farmer», «tenants' rights».

### Examples

- There shall no common man eat of the holy thing; a tenant of a priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. (Torah LEV.22.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tenant/#x1)

### Note

Countable. Opposite: landlord (or landlady). In the USA people also say «renter». Do not confuse «tenant» with «tenet» (a belief or principle). Maths: rent per month × 12 = rent per year.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tenant» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenant/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tenant» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tenant.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «tenant» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tenant/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tenant» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/tenant.html) on Mova free.