tenanted

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.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from present participle of tenir, to hold, from Latin tenre; see ten- in Indo-European roots.]

Thesaurus

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"