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tenanted

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ten·ant  (tnnt)
n.
1. One that pays rent to use or occupy land, a building, or other property owned by another.
2. A dweller in a place; an occupant.
3. Law One who holds or possesses lands, tenements, or sometimes personal property by any kind of title.
tr. & intr.v. ten·ant·ed, ten·ant·ing, ten·ants
To hold as a tenant or be a tenant.
[Middle English, from Old French, from present participle of tenir, to hold, from Latin tenre; see ten- in Indo-European roots.]
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Adj.1.tenanted - resided in; having tenants; "not all the occupied (or tenanted) apartments were well kept up"
occupied
inhabited - having inhabitants; lived in; "the inhabited regions of the earth"
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IN the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace -- Radiant palace -- reared its head.
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I pointed to the window of the room where Little Dorrit was born, and where her father lived so long, and asked him what was the name of the lodger who tenanted that apartment at present?
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That it was tenanted by evil spirits, visible, audible and active, no one in all that region doubted any more than he doubted what he was told of Sundays by the traveling preacher.
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