tenant.
One who holds a lease (a tenancy).
Meaning & usage
One who holds a lease (a tenancy).
One who has possession of any place.
Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
multi-tenant hosting
One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.
One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English tenaunt, from Anglo-Norman tenaunt and Old French tenant, present participle of tenir (“to hold”), from Latin tenēre (“hold, keep”).
To hold as, or be, a tenant.
To inhabit.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English tenaunt, from Anglo-Norman tenaunt and Old French tenant, present participle of tenir (“to hold”), from Latin tenēre (“hold, keep”).
Misconstruction of tenet.
Where this word comes from
Possibly just a modification of tenet, but note obsolete tenent (“tenet”).
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