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.