Inmate vs Tenant - What's the difference?
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A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient)
A person who occupies or dwells within a dwelling-house. The word came to be used to refer to temporary inhabitants such as guests in a hotel, students in an on-campus dormitory, patients in a hospital, or prisoners.
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.
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(legal) One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.
Inmate is a related term of tenant.
As nouns the difference between inmate and tenant
is that inmate is a person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient) 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.inmate
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Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
Perhaps around 1970, television journalists began to use the word as a euphemism for "prisoner", and today perhaps many young people cannot remember that it ever had any other meaning.Anagrams
* *tenant
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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
