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tenant
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of TENANT
1
one who rents a room or apartment in another's house <the laundry in the basement is for tenants only>
Related Words cotenant, subtenant; flatmate [chiefly British], roommate (also roomie); guest, visitor; occupant, occupier, resident, resider
Near Antonyms laird [chiefly Scottish], landholder, landowner, proprietor; landlady; slumlord; host, innkeeper, proprietor
2
one who lives permanently in a place <the abandoned warehouse's only tenants are a band of squatters>
Related Words cohabitant, coresident; aborigine, native; citizen, national, subject; colonist, émigré (also emigré), migrant, newcomer, settler; burgher, local, localite, townee [chiefly British], townie (or towny), townsman, villager
Near Antonyms alien, foreigner, nonresident; guest, tourist, visitor; defector, emigrant, escaper, evacuee, exile, expatriate, refugee
Antonyms transient
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