Hyphenation of tenant

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word tenant? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

ten-ant

Definitions of tenant:

1.	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.	A holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
3.	Any occupant who dwells in a place
4.	Occupy as a tenant

Synonyms of tenant:

noun	renter, payer, remunerator
noun	holder, bearer
noun	resident, occupant, occupier
verb	inhabit, occupy

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.