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Word Meanings - SUBTENANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who rents a tenement, or land, etc., of one who is also a tenant; an undertenant.

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  • TENANT
    One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title
  • UNDERTENANT
    The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.
  • TENANTLESS
    Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. Shak.
  • TENANT SAW
    See TENON
  • TENANTRY
    1. The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom. 2. Tenancy. Ridley.
  • TENANTABLE
    Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant. -- Ten"ant*a*ble*ness, n.
  • TENEMENT
    That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
  • TENEMENTARY
    Capable of being leased; held by tenants. Spelman.
  • TENEMENTAL
    Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants. Blackstone.
  • TER-TENANT
    See TERRE-TENANT
  • CONTENEMENT
    That which is held together with another thing; that which is connected with a tenetment, or thing holden, as a certin quantity of land a Burrill.
  • SUBLIEUTENANT
    An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.
  • TERRE-TENANT
    One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant.
  • LIEUTENANT
    of tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Lieu, and Tenant, and cf. Locum 1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty. The lawful magistrate, who is the
  • LIEUTENANT GENERAL
    . An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. Note: In the United States, before the civil war, this rank had been conferred only on George Washington and on Winfield Scott. In 1864 it was revived by Congress and
  • LIEUTENANTRY
    See LIEUTENANCY
  • COTENANT
    A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.
  • LIEUTENANTSHIP
    See 1
  • UNTENANT
    To remove a tenant from. Coleridge.
  • APPURTENANT
    Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. Blackstone. Common appurtenatn. See under Common, n.
  • SUBTENANT
    One who rents a tenement, or land, etc., of one who is also a tenant; an undertenant.

 

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