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Definitions: Renter |
RenterNoun1. Someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else; "the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent". 2. An owner who receives payment for the use of their property by another. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "renter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references) |
Synonym: RenterSynonym: tenant (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Possessor | Noun: possessor, holder; occupant, occupier; tenant; person in possession, man in possession; renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee; zemindar, ryot; tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Renter |
| English words defined with "renter": Fiar ♦ Rentered, Rentering. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "renter": Gross rent ♦ HOUSE SITTER ♦ leased circuit ♦ part-time leased circuit, part-time private wire circuit, part-time private wire telephone circuit. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Delinquent Renter (1994) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Russell Natterstad, renter of a 320 acre farm near Estherville, Iowa.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Home of Ray Halstead, renter and FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borrower. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Machine shed on farm of Theodore Johnson, renter of eighty acres near Marseilles, Illinois. This farm belongs to a business man who bought it from a group of mortgage noteholders.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Renter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Renter" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "renter" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Renter | Last name | 170 | 42,366 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "renter": renter-warden. | |
Ending with "renter": Rack-renter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "renter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | marrës me qira, arendator (occupant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المستأجر (lessee, occupant, occupier, tenant), المؤجر (shipper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разпространител на филми, фирма разпространител на филми, наемател (charterer, holder, leaseholder, lessee, lodger, occupant, occupier, tenant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 租借人. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nájemník (inmate, occupier, tenant), nájemce (copyholder, leaseholder, lessee, tenant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lejer (tenant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | huurder (leaseholder, lessee, tenant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | luanto (tenant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | موجر (Landlord, Lessor), اجاره دهنده (Bailer, Lessor), بکرایه واگذارنده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | loueur, locataire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | hierder (tenant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verleiher (bestower, distributor, hirer, lender, lessor and intermediary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μισθωτήσ (leaseholder, lessee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | משכיר (landlord, lessor), חוכר (lessee, tenant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bérlő (hirer, lessee, lodger, occupant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | leigjandi (tenant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | noleggiatore (charterer, freighter, hirer, jobber, lender, lessor and intermediary, tenant), locatario (leaseholder, lessee, tenant), fittavolo (holder, keeper, lessee, tenant farmer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 借家人 (tenant), 借り主 (borrower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゃくやに" (tenant), しゃっかに" (tenant), かりぬし (borrower, debtor, tenant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mayleyder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | hürdó (tenant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enterray inquilino (lodger, occupant, occupier, tenant). (various references) moşier (laird, landed proprietor, landlord, squire), chiriaş (lessee, lodger, roomer, tenant), arendaş (farmer, landholder, leaseholder, occupant, tenant). (various references) арендатор (farmer, holder, leaseholder, lessee, occupier, tenant, tenant farmer), съемщик (leaseholder, lessee). (various references) zakupnik (lessee), zakupac (leaseholder, lessee, rentier, sharecropper, taker, tenant). (various references) inquilino (householder, inmate, lodger, occupant, occupier, roomer, sitting tenant, tenant), arrendador (hirer, leaseholder, lessor). (various references) hyresgäst (lessee, lodger, tenant). (various references) kiraya veren (landlady, landlord, leaser, owner), kiralayan (hirer, leaser, lessee, tenant), kiracı (hirer, leaseholder, lessee, tenant). (various references) орендар (co-tenant, farmer, holder, leaseholder, lessee, occupant, occupier, tenant), наймач (employer, leaseholder, occupant). (various references) người cấy nộp tô người bán buôn phim ảnh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "renter": renters. (additional references) | |
Words containing "renter": overentertained, parenteral, parenterally. (additional references) | |
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"Renter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fenter, Genter, Rantzer, recteur, regner, reinter, reneer, rener, Renger, Renier, renster, rentaf, rentee, rentor, Rentree, rester, reter, retna, retter, Rettner, reuter, Rextar, runte. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "renter" (pronounced re"nter) |
| 4 | -e" n t er | center, centre, dissenter, enter, inventor, mentor, Stentor, Venter. |
| 3 | -n t er | banter, blunter, canter, Cantor, carpenter, counter, covenanter, discounter, enchanter, encounter, epicenter, experimenter, fainter, grantor, headhunter, Hunter, Midwinter, Minter, multicenter, overwinter, painter, planter, pointer, presenter, printer, punter, reenter, saunter, splinter, sprinter, Supercenter, tormentor, winter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-n-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: enter, rente, terne, treen. | |
-2 letters: erne, rent, rete, teen, tern, tree. | |
-3 letters: ere, ern, err, nee, net, ree, ret, tee, ten. | |
-4 letters: en, er, et, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-n-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: enterer, reenter, reentry, reinter, renters, rentier, sterner, terrane, terreen, terrene, terrine. | |
+2 letters: banterer, brethren, enterers, inserter, interred, interrex, inverter, rattener, recanter, recenter, recreant, reenters, referent, reinsert, reinters, relearnt, renature, rentiers, reorient, repenter, retainer, retrench, returned, returnee, returner, reuniter, reverent, rottener, taverner, tenderer, terranes, terreens, terrenes, terrines, tinkerer, trencher, trendier, venturer, winterer. | |
+3 letters: banterers, barrenest, bartender, carpenter, centraler, certainer, converter, decurrent, deterrent, deterring, dethroner, easterner, enrapture, entrainer, estranger, excurrent, fermenter, fermentor, ferreting, generator, inserters, interbred, interfere, interpret, interterm, inverters, irredenta, merriment, orienteer, orneriest, partnered, precentor, prereturn, presenter, pretender, preventer, ratteners, recanters, reconvert, recounter, recreants, recurrent, reentered, reentrant, reentries, referents, refronted, regranted, reinserts, renatured, renatures, rencontre, reorients, repattern, repenters, represent, reprinted, reprinter, restriven, resurgent, retainers, retearing, rethinker, retrained, returnees, returners, reuniters, revertant, reverting, rewritten, saunterer, shortener, taverners, tenderers, ternaries, thunderer, tinkerers, tormenter, treenware, trenchers, trinketer, turneries, underrate, venerator, venturers, veratrine, warrantee, westerner, winterers, winterier. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 6E 74 65 72 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -. - . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e n t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 006E 0074 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527180867184 |
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