Tenant

Tenant may refer to:

  • An occupier of a leasehold estate
  • Tenement (law), the holder of a legal interest in real estate
  • Tenant farmer
  • Anchor tenant or anchor store, one of the larger stores in a shopping mall
  • The Tenant, 1976 Roman Polanski film
  • The Tenants, 2005 film drama starring Dylan McDermott and Snoop Dogg
  • The Tenants (band), from Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia

Famous quotes containing the word tenant:

    “To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.”
    —For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Having been tenant long to a rich Lord,
    Not thriving, I resolved to be bold,
    And make a suit unto him, to afford
    A new small-rented lease, and cancel th’ old.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)