TENANTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenantry mean? 

• TENANTRY (noun)
  The noun TENANTRY has 1 sense:

1. tenants of an estate considered as a group

  Familiarity information: TENANTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENANTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tenants of an estate considered as a group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("tenantry" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Derivation:

tenant (occupy as a tenant)

 Context examples 

The party drove off in very good spirits; Sir Walter prepared with condescending bows for all the afflicted tenantry and cottagers who might have had a hint to show themselves, and Anne walked up at the same time, in a sort of desolate tranquillity, to the Lodge, where she was to spend the first week.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She whom I had known as the play actress of Anstey Cross became the dowager Lady Avon; whilst Boy Jim, as dear to me now as when we harried birds’ nests and tickled trout together, is now Lord Avon, beloved by his tenantry, the finest sportsman and the most popular man from the north of the Weald to the Channel.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Reed might be at that time some six or seven and thirty; she was a woman of robust frame, square-shouldered and strong-limbed, not tall, and, though stout, not obese: she had a somewhat large face, the under jaw being much developed and very solid; her brow was low, her chin large and prominent, mouth and nose sufficiently regular; under her light eyebrows glimmered an eye devoid of ruth; her skin was dark and opaque, her hair nearly flaxen; her constitution was sound as a bell—illness never came near her; she was an exact, clever manager; her household and tenantry were thoroughly under her control; her children only at times defied her authority and laughed it to scorn; she dressed well, and had a presence and port calculated to set off handsome attire.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)