Tenant may refer to:
- An occupier of a leasehold estate
- Tenement (law), the holder of a legal interest in real estate
- Tenant farmer
- Anchor tenant or anchor store, one of the larger stores in a shopping mall
- The Tenant, 1976 Roman Polanski film
- The Tenants, 2005 film drama starring Dylan McDermott and Snoop Dogg
- The Tenants (band), from Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
Famous quotes containing the word tenant:
“Having been tenant long to a rich Lord,
Not thriving, I resolved to be bold,
And make a suit unto him, to afford
A new small-rented lease, and cancel th’ old.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.”
—For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)