Dictionary Entry
rent
rent is a 4-letter English word with 20 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Rend. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 20 senses
Definitions
- 1past tense & past participle
of Rend
- 2intransitive verb
To rant.
- 3
imp. & p. p. of Rend.
- 4noun
An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
- 5noun
Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
- 6transitive verb
To tear. See Rend.
- 7noun
Income; revenue. See Catel.
- 8noun
Pay; reward; share; toll.
- 9noun
A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.
- 10noun
To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
- 11noun
To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.
- 12intransitive verb
To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.
- 13noun
the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
"he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"
- 14noun
an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
"there was a rip in his pants"
"she had snags in her stockings"
- 15noun
a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
- 16noun
the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
- 17verb
engage for service under a term of contract
"We took an apartment on a quiet street"
"Let's rent a car"
- 18verb
grant use or occupation of under a term of contract
"I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"
- 19verb
let for money
"We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"
Synonyms
- 20verb
hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
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