Tenant vs Boarder - What's the difference?
tenant | boarder | Related terms |
One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.
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One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
* Cowper
* Cowley
* Byron
(legal) One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.
A pupil who lives at school during term time.
Someone who pays for meals and lodging in a house rather than a hotel.
(nautical) A sailor attacking an enemy ship by boarding her, or one repelling such attempts by an enemy.
Someone who uses a snowboard
As nouns the difference between tenant and boarder
is that tenant is one who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others while boarder is a pupil who lives at school during term time.As a verb tenant
is to hold as, or be, a tenant.tenant
English
Alternative forms
* tenaunt (obsolete) * tennant (obsolete) * tennaunt (obsolete)Noun
(Leasehold estate) (en noun)- sweet tenants of this grove
- the happy tenant of your shade
- the sister tenants of the middle deep
Synonyms
* lessee * renter * renteeDerived terms
* tenancy * tenantless * tenantrySee also
* tenetboarder
English
Noun
(en noun)- The student body consisted primarily of boarders , except for a few children belonging to the school staff.
- When I left for college, my parents took on a boarder in my old room to help defray expenses.
- The captain shouted at the crew to grab arms and repel boarders .
- A group of boarders swept past us as we climbed the side of the ski run