TENANTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenanted mean? 

• TENANTED (adjective)
  The adjective TENANTED has 1 sense:

1. resided in; having tenants

  Familiarity information: TENANTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENANTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resided in; having tenants

Synonyms:

occupied; tenanted

Context example:

not all the occupied (or tenanted) apartments were well kept up

Similar:

inhabited (having inhabitants; lived in)

 Context examples 

That the Hall is tenanted by Williamson.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“The cottage is still tenanted,” it said.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In those days I was young, and all sorts of fancies bright and dark tenanted my mind: the memories of nursery stories were there amongst other rubbish; and when they recurred, maturing youth added to them a vigour and vividness beyond what childhood could give.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The time he had mentioned was more than out, and he lived in a little street near the Veterinary College at Camden Town, which was principally tenanted, as one of our clerks who lived in that direction informed me, by gentlemen students, who bought live donkeys, and made experiments on those quadrupeds in their private apartments.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The drawing- room, as I have before observed, was raised two steps above the dining- room, and on the top of the upper step, placed a yard or two back within the room, appeared a large marble basin—which I recognised as an ornament of the conservatory—where it usually stood, surrounded by exotics, and tenanted by gold fish—and whence it must have been transported with some trouble, on account of its size and weight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)