rent
See also: Rent
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English rent, rente, from Old English renta, from Old French rente and Medieval Latin renta, both from Vulgar Latin *rendere, from Latin reddere, present active infinitive of reddō.
NounEdit
rent (countable and uncountable, plural rents)
- A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 17, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
- A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
- (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
- A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.
- An object for which rent is charged or paid.
- (obsolete) Income; revenue.
- Gower
- [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.
- Alexander Pope
- So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.
- Gower
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
payment made by a tenant
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payment made for the use of equipment or a service
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VerbEdit
rent (third-person singular simple present rents, present participle renting, simple past and past participle rented)
- (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
- I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.
- (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
- We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.
- (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
- (intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.
- The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.
TranslationsEdit
to occupy premises in exchange for rent
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to grant occupation in return for rent
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obtain/have temporary possession of an object such as a movie
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See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English renten (“to tear”). Variant form of renden.
NounEdit
rent (plural rents)
- A tear or rip in some surface.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10
- The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10
- A division or schism.
- 2002, Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967:
- […] the White House was considering sending Vice President Humphrey to Cairo to patch up the many rents in U.S.—Egyptian relations.
- 2002, Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967:
TranslationsEdit
a tear or rip
a division or schism between two things.
VerbEdit
rent
- simple past tense and past participle of rend
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
rent
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of rennen
- (archaic) plural imperative of rennen
Norwegian BokmålEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rent
AdverbEdit
rent
VerbEdit
rent
- past participle of renne
ReferencesEdit
- “ren” in The Bokmål Dictionary.