CEFR B1

tenantry

noun

Meaning

tenantry means the state or act of being a tenant. It can have more than one sense, so use the alternate meanings and examples to choose the meaning that matches your sentence.

Examples

The walls were never painted during my tenantry, becoming dingier and dingier as the years went by.
The article uses tenantry to mean the state or act of being a tenant.

Synonyms: tenantship

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tenantry (B1)

noun

Definition

tenantry means the state or act of being a tenant. It can have more than one sense, so use the alternate meanings and examples to choose the meaning that matches your sentence.

Examples

The walls were never painted during my tenantry, becoming dingier and dingier as the years went by.
The article uses tenantry to mean the state or act of being a tenant.
The teacher asked students to find tenantry in the reading.

How to Use tenantry

a/the tenantry (noun pattern): Use an article when the noun is countable in context. — "The article mentioned a tenantry."
tenantry in context (usage pattern): Use surrounding words to choose the correct sense. — "We checked tenantry in context before translating it."

Synonyms of tenantry

Words with a similar meaning to tenantry:

tenantship

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