Word Meanings - RENTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.
Related words: (words related to RENTER)
- 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 - TENANTLESS
Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. Shak. - TENANT SAW
See TENON - ESTATE
The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm , which are the lords spiritual, the lords - TENANTRY
1. The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom. 2. Tenancy. Ridley. - LESSEE
The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease. Blackstone. - TENANTABLE
Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant. -- Ten"ant*a*ble*ness, n. - TER-TENANT
See TERRE-TENANT - REESTATE
To reëstablish. Walis. - DEHONESTATE
To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see - SUBLIEUTENANT
An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank. - RELESSEE
See RELEASEE - INTESTATE
1. Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate. Blackstone. Airy succeeders of intestate joys. Shak. 2. Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate. - TERRE-TENANT
One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant. - UNDERTENANT
The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee. - 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 - DETESTATE
To detest. Udall. - POTESTATE
A chief ruler; a potentate. Wyclif. "An irous potestate." Chaucer. - LIEUTENANTRY
See LIEUTENANCY - COTENANT
A tenant in common, or a joint tenant. - SUBLESSEE
A holder of a sublease. - RESTATE
To state anew. Palfrey.