Word.ws English Dictionary

tenanted

tenanted is the simple past and past participle of tenant.

Meaning of tenant

Verb

tenant (third-person singular simple present tenants, present participle tenanting, simple past and past participle tenanted)

  1. To hold as, or be, a tenant.
    Synonyms:
    lodge
  2. (transitive) To inhabit.
    • His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes fastened at the side with rusty clasps.1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London...

See all 8 meanings of tenant

Forms of tenanted

comparativemore tenanted
superlativemost tenanted

Words formed from tenanted

Questions about tenanted

What is tenanted the simple past and past participle of?
Tenanted is the simple past and past participle of tenant.

Words near tenanted in the dictionary

  1. tenant saws
  2. tenant-in-chief
  3. tenant-right
  4. tenantable
  5. tenantableness
  6. tenanted
  7. tenanting
  8. tenantism
  9. tenantless
  10. tenantlessness
  11. tenantlike

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tenanted (page history and authors); tenant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tenanted.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tenanted. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.