Tenant vs Untenanted - What's the difference?
tenant | untenanted |
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.
Not leased to or occupied by a tenant; unoccupied.
* 1842: Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
*1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 20
*:The house looked as though it had been long untenanted . The windows were encrusted with dust, and the shutters were up.
As a noun 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.As an adjective untenanted is
not leased to or occupied by a tenant; unoccupied.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
* tenetuntenanted
English
Adjective
(-)- ... a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.