All tenant synonyms
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T t noun tenant
- addressees — the person, company, or the like to whom a piece of mail is addressed.
- helot — a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state. Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
- lodger — a person who lives in rented quarters in another's house; roomer.
- indweller — to inhabit.
- bondman — a feudal serf
- esne — (Anglo-Saxon, historical) A hireling of servile status; slave.
- bondmen — a male slave.
- lessee — a person, group, etc., to whom a lease is granted.
- inhabitant — a person or animal that inhabits a place, especially as a permanent resident.
- liegeman — a vassal; subject.
- leaseholder — a tenant under a lease.
- guest — Edgar A(lbert) 1881–1959, U.S. journalist and writer of verse, born in England.
- bedfellow — You refer to two things or people as bedfellows when they have become associated or related in some way.
- dweller — to live or stay as a permanent resident; reside.
- denizen — A denizen of a particular place is a person, animal, or plant that lives or grows in this place.
- occupant — a person, family, group, or organization that lives in, occupies, or has quarters or space in or on something: the occupant of a taxicab; the occupants of the building.
- ephemera — Things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time.
- autochthon — one of the earliest known inhabitants of any country; aboriginal
- occupier — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- addressee — The addressee of a letter or parcel is the person or company that it is addressed to.
- dependents — Plural form of dependent.
verb tenant
- occupy — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- live in — Also, sleep-in. residing at the place of one's employment: a live-in maid.
- dwell — to live or stay as a permanent resident; reside.
- indwell — to inhabit.
- hang out — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- indwelt — to inhabit.
- bunking — a built-in platform bed, as on a ship.
- inhabit — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- nested — (of an ordered collection of sets or intervals) having the property that each set is contained in the preceding set and the length or diameter of the sets approaches zero as the number of sets tends to infinity.