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tenantries

tenantries is the plural of tenantry.

Meaning of tenantry

Noun

tenantry (plural tenantries)

  1. The act or state of being a tenant.
    • The walls were never painted during my tenantry, becoming dingier and dingier as the years went by.
    Synonyms:
    tenantship
  2. (formal) The body of tenants on an estate.
    • Are you fond of peasants? My tenantry are delightful creatures, and there is not one of them who remembers the bringing of the news of the Battle of Waterloo. When a new Duchess is brought to Tankerton, the oldest elm in the park must be felled. That is one of many strange old customs. As she is...1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published 1912, →OCLC

Questions about tenantries

What is tenantries the plural of?
Tenantries is the plural of tenantry.

Words near tenantries in the dictionary

  1. tenanting
  2. tenantism
  3. tenantless
  4. tenantlessness
  5. tenantlike
  6. tenantries
  7. tenantry
  8. tenantry acre
  9. tenantry acres
  10. tenants
  11. tenants at will

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