tenants 1 of 2

noun

plural of tenant
1
as in visitors
one who rents a room or apartment in another's house the laundry in the basement is for tenants only

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2
as in residents
one who lives permanently in a place the abandoned warehouse's only tenants are a band of squatters

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tenants

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verb

present tense third-person singular of tenant
as in leases

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Recent Examples of tenants
Noun
The company will also be making a tenants’ club on the 61st floor, where Margaret Bourke-White briefly kept a studio in the 1930s and, glamorously if extralegally, insisted on living (with two pet alligators). — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 7 Oct. 2026 The retailer will join University Park Village, the outdoor shopping mall with a mix of luxury and high-end tenants. — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2026 The problem is not simply that there are fewer productions; the traditional, high-volume soundstage tenants are changing. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026 Growing regional brand Over Easy will be one of the tenants at the 220-acre District at Ten Mile development, just off Interstate 84. — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 6 Oct. 2026 Southside United Housing Development Fund, known as Los Sures, was founded in 1972 as tenants organized to save buildings abandoned by landlords. — Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026 The units are plain and durable; the numbers have to work for her tenants. — Harry Bruinius, Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2026 The protesters have been demanding stronger protections for tenants, measures to combat fraud and a ban on evictions when alternative housing is unavailable. — Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2026 The building had been home to offices and then lost tenants during the COVID-19 pandemic. — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tenants
  1. visitors
  2. residents
  3. leases
  4. lodgers
  5. occupants
  6. rents
  7. lessees
  8. inhabitants
Noun
  • A number of specialty cafés and roasters are changing that narrative, encouraging visitors to experience coffee sourced from across the country within the country.
    — Nikkita Nair, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The museum, leaders announced on Wednesday, will also house a genealogy center that will be intended to help visitors preserve family history through the company FamilySearch.
    — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of visitors
Noun
  • DeSantis also warned residents far outside the cone to watch for tornadoes, which can spawn before the core of Isaias moves ashore.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Older residents here repeat a mantra that the country has been through worse, notably when Iraq launched Scud missiles in 1991 during the first Gulf War.
    — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of residents
Verb
  • The company leases office space, including in Hollywood and Culver City, which eventually could be phased out.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Cerebras makes dinner plate-sized ASICs, or a custom microchip built for inference workloads, and leases them from inside its own data centers as a cloud service.
    — Isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of leases
Noun
  • For most of the park's existence, Roaring Springs has been the only source of water available for tourists, lodgers, diners, and hikers across both rims and at the bottom of the canyon.
    — Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Food is so scarce and making rent so difficult that characters are perennially taking in lodgers who share beds and sleep in kitchens.
    — Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
Definition of lodgers
Noun
  • The researchers propose that this variability in brightness is caused by the rapid evolution of fresh debris through further impacts and changes in the orbits of the system's occupants.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The four-count lawsuit alleges that High Meadow was negligent and reckless in allowing more than 150 students into a pool that had a maximum capacity of 105 occupants.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of occupants
Verb
  • Dan Pfoltzer, a 75-year-old school bus driver who rents a small home in Nassau, New York, has been warily watching oil heat prices for months.
    — Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
  • According to Page Six, Earle rents a luxury two-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles.
    — India Roby, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of rents
Noun
  • More than half the current tenants are original lessees.
    — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 10 June 2026
  • Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez attempted to carve out exemptions for commercial restaurant lessees from the wage ordinance, citing a need to establish a distinction between hotel operators/owners and restaurants.
    — City News Service, Daily News, 14 May 2026
Definition of lessees
Noun
  • More than 90 percent of Gaza’s inhabitants are internally displaced.
    — KHALED ELGINDY, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Well… The inhabitants of Étretat [where the series was partly filmed] hate us a little bit.
    — Baptiste Mandrillon, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
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“Tenants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenants. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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