Definitions of tenant:
- noun: someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
Example: "The landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent"
- noun: any occupant who dwells in a place
- noun: a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
- verb: occupy as a tenant
- name: A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #39034)