Then the spirit of this unforgettable and strange smell died and got lost in the leagues of the forest without a tenant behind it. Xenie looked around wildly, but the pretty little room was quiet and tenantless. As in a scene of transformation, the seemingly tenantless jungle came to life. These sample phrases are automatically selected from various online information sources to reflect the current use of the word “tenant.” The opinions expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us your feedback. Again, I signed up, and I found it without a tenant, I took back my old room. Apartment buildings are now tenantless and were once overcrowded with life. Global warming or cooling of the planet – I never really know what to fear when I wake up in the morning – collapse of the international banking system, recession, possibility that Tony Blair could one day be the Caudillo of Europe, tombs without tenants, and the dead squeaking and squatting in the streets of London: Enough, you might think, to continue. Thousands of apartments were empty and without rent, impossible to resell. Klondike, he found the large apartment as dark and tenantless as ever. There is also a desert in this area, an island without tenants, “it`s spacious enough for a barracks,” Murat remarked as he walked through one suite after another of the large rooms without tenants. Subscribe to America`s largest dictionary and get thousands of additional definitions and advanced search – ad-free! What if this chimney was without a tenant, apart from the presence of a weak old man? “I will sit downstairs until morning,” said the mill maid; and as he stumbled down the stairs, he heard Edward lock and lock the door of the now rent-free apartment with futile caution.
So there`s also a law under consideration by the New York City Council that would defer paying taxes and encourage landlords to work with their tenants. You`ll probably never make the opposite mistake (i.e. replacing the tenant with a principle), but if you think you could, keep in mind that both tenants and residents end up on -ant. Thanks to its confusingly similar pronunciation, tenants (“okkuant, landowner”) are sometimes misused in place of the principle (“Principle, Lehre”). Consider this example: One of the former tenants of the Buddhist faith [sic] is, “Who sits, wins” âPolice, January/February 1968 Britannica English: Translation of the tenant for Arabic speaker The city had been a tenant of the Civic Center Plaza for decades, so it knew the state of the building inside and out. “Tenant Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tenant. Retrieved 9 January 2022. Note: This explanation of Latin tenäre is conventional, although the shift of meaning (from “stretch, stretch” to “stretch the arm” to “grasp, hold”?) is not parallelized in other languages.
Latin has no result of the root formations of the Indo-European verb based on *ten- attested in other families (shown in the etymology above) after *ten- in transitive/telic functions was replaced by the base *tend- (see tender entry 3). . . . .