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Webster 1913 Edition

Rent

Rent

(rĕnt)
,
Verb.
I.
To rant.
[R. & Obs.]
Hudibras.

Rent

(rĕnt)
,
imp.
&
p.
p.
of
Rend
.

Rent

(rĕnt)
,
Noun.
[From
Rend
.]
1.
An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
See what a
rent
the envious Casca made.
Shakespeare
2.
Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation;
as, a
rent
in the church
.
Syn. – Fissure; breach; disrupture; rupture; tear; dilaceration; break; fracture.

Rent

(rĕnt)
,
Verb.
T.
To tear. See
Rend
.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Rent

(rĕnt)
,
Noun.
[F.
rente
, LL.
renta
, fr. L.
reddita
, fem. sing. or neut. pl. of
redditus
, p. p. of
reddere
to give back, pay. See
Render
.]
1.
Income; revenue. See
Catel
.
[Obs.]
“Catel had they enough and rent.”
Chaucer.
[Bacchus] a waster was and all his
rent

In wine and bordel he dispent.
Gower.
So bought an annual
rent
or two,
And liv’d, just as you see I do.
Pope.
2.
Pay; reward; share; toll.
[Obs.]
Death, that taketh of high and low his
rent
.
Chaucer.
3.
(Law)
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.
☞ The term rent is also popularly applied to compensation for the use of certain personal chattels, as a piano, a sewing machine, etc.
Black rent
.
See
Blackmail
, 3.
–
Forehand rent
,
rent which is paid in advance; foregift.
–
Rent arrear
, rent in arrears; unpaid rent.
Blackstone.
–
Rent charge
(Law)
,
a rent reserved on a conveyance of land in fee simple, or granted out of lands by deed; – so called because, by a covenant or clause in the deed of conveyance, the land is charged with a distress for the payment of it.
Bouvier.
–
Rent roll
,
a list or account of rents or income; a rental.
–
Rent seck
(Law)
,
a rent reserved by deed, but without any clause of distress; barren rent. A power of distress was made incident to rent seck by Statute 4 George II. c. 28.
–
Rent service
(Eng. Law)
,
rent reserved out of land held by fealty or other corporeal service; – so called from such service being incident to it.
–
White rent
,
a quitrent when paid in silver; – opposed to black rent.

Rent

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Rented
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Renting
.]
[F.
renter
. See
Rent
,
Noun.
]
1.
To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease;
as, the owwner of an estate or house
rents
it
.
2.
To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent;
as, the tennant
rents
an estate of the owner
.

Rent

,
Verb.
I.
To be leased, or let for rent;
as, an estate
rents
for five hundred dollars a year
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Rent

RENT

,
pp.
of rend. Torn asunder; split or burst by violence; torn.

RENT

,
Noun.
[from rend.
1.
A fissure; a break or breach made by force; as a rent made in the earth, in a rock or in a garment.
2.
A schism; a separation; as a rent in the church.

RENT

,
Verb.
T.
To tear. [See Rend.]

RENT

,
Verb.
I.
To rant. [Not in use.]

RENT

, n.
A sum of money, or a certain amount of other valuable thing, issuing yearly from lands or tenements; a compensation or return, in the nature of an acknowledgment, for the possession of a corporeal inheritance.
Rents, at common law, are of three kinds; rent-service, rent-charge, and rent-seek. Rent-service is when some corporal service is incident to it, as by fealty and a sum of money; rent-charge is when the owner of the rent has no future interest or reversion expectant in the land, but the rent is reserved in the deed by a clause of distress for rent in arrear; rent-seek, dry rent, is rent reserved by deed, but without any clause of distress. There are also rents of assize, certain established rents of free-holders and copy-holders of manors, which cannot be varied; called also quit-rents. These when payable in silver, are called white rents, in contradistinction to rents reserved in work or the baser metals, called black rents, or black mail. Rack-rent is a rent of the full value of the tenement, or near it. A fee farm rent is a rent-charge issuing out of an estate in fee, of at least one fourth of the value of the lands at the time of its reservation.

RENT

, v.t.
1.
To lease; to grant the possession and enjoyment of lands or tenements for a consideration in the nature of rent. The owner of an estate or house rents it to a tenant for a term of years.
2.
To take and hold by lease the possession of land or a tenement, for a consideration in the nature of rent. The tenant rents his estate for a year.

RENT

,
Verb.
I.
To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate or a tenement rents for five hundred dollars a year.

Definition 2024

Rent

Rent

See also: rent

English

Proper noun

Rent

  1. A surname​.

Derived terms

rent

rent

See also: Rent

English

Noun

rent ‎(plural rents)

  1. 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.
  2. A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
  3. (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.‎
  4. An object for which rent is charged or paid.
  5. (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.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

rent ‎(third-person singular simple present rents, present participle renting, simple past and past participle rented)

  1. (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
  2. (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
  3. (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
  4. (intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.
    The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.
See also
Translations

Etymology 2

Middle English renten ‎(“to tear”). Variant form of renden.

Noun

rent ‎(plural rents)

  1. A tear or rip in some surface.
  2. 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.
Translations

Verb

rent

  1. simple past tense and past participle of rend

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛnt
  • IPA(key): /rɛnt/

Verb

rent

  1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of rennen
  2. (archaic) plural imperative of rennen

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

rent

  1. neuter singular of ren

Adverb

rent

  1. purely

Verb

rent

  1. past participle of renne

References

Swedish

Adjective

rent

  1. absolute indefinite neuter form of ren.

Adverb

rent (comparative renare, superlative renast)

  1. cleanly
  2. purely

Etymology

Old French rente, from Vulgar Latin rendere ‎(“to render”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rĕnt, IPA(key): /ɹɛnt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

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