Tenant may refer to:

Real estate

*Tenant, the holder of a

leasehold estate A leasehold estate is an ownership of a temporary right to hold land or property in which a lessee or a tenant has rights of real property by some form of title from a lessor or landlord. Although a tenant does hold rights to real property, a le ...

in real estate **

Tenancy A lease is a contractual arrangement calling for the user (referred to as the ''lessee'') to pay the owner (referred to as the ''lessor'') for the use of an asset. Property, buildings and vehicles are common assets that are leased. Industrial ...

, the resulting status *

Tenant-in-chief In medieval and early modern Europe, a tenant-in-chief (or vassal-in-chief) was a person who held his lands under various forms of feudal land tenure directly from the king or territorial prince to whom he did homage, as opposed to holding them ...

, in feudal land law *

Tenement (law) {{Wiktionary, tenement A tenement (from the Latin tenere ''to hold''), in law, is anything that is held, rather than owned. This usage is a holdover from feudalism, which still forms the basis of property law in many common law jurisdictions, in ...

, the holder of a legal interest in real estate *

Tenant farmer A tenant farmer is a farmer or farmworker who resides and works on land owned by a landlord, while tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and ma ...

, a farmer residing on land owned by another *

Anchor tenant In North American, Australian and New Zealand retail, an "anchor tenant", sometimes called an "anchor store", "draw tenant", or "key tenant", is a considerably larger tenant in a shopping mall, often a department store or retail chain. They are ...

, one of the larger stores in a shopping mall

Film and literature

* ''Tenant'' (film), 2024 film starring and * ''The Tenant'' (novel), a novel by * ''The Tenant'' (1976 film), 1976 Roman Polanski film based on 's novel * ''The Tenant'' (1957 film), a 1957 Spanish drama film * ''The Tenant'' (2023 film), an Indian film by

Other uses

Door tenant A door tenant is a barrister who has been granted permission to join a set of chambers and work with them from premises outside the chambers themselves.Anna Williams (ed), ''Chambers Student Guide to the Legal Profession'' (London: Chambers and Pa ...

, lawyers who work from premises of a barristers' chamber * Tenant, a group of users who share a common access to a

multitenancy Software multitenancy is a software architecture in which a single instance of software runs on a server and serves multiple tenants. Systems designed in such manner are "shared" (rather than "dedicated" or "isolated"). A tenant is a group of us ...

software system

Real estate

Film and literature

Other uses

See also