Housemate vs Tenant - What's the difference?
housemate | tenant |
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.
As nouns the difference between housemate and tenant
is that housemate is someone living in the same house while tenant is one who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.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