tenant

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1. tenant - Noun

2. tenant - Verb

3. Tenant - Proper noun

Meaning

One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.

One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.

To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.

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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house. Raymond Chandler

Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form. Friedensreich Hundertwasser

I am the owner of my shoulders, the tenant of my hips. Malcolm de Chazal

An empty house is better than a bad tenant. Irish Proverb

Better an idle house than a bad tenant. Irish Proverb

Whether it was the tenant who seduced the landlord's wife, or the landlord who seduced the tenant's wife, it is the tenant who would leave the house. Ibo Proverb

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