rent

English Online Dictionary. What means rent‎? What does rent mean?

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.

Noun

rent (countable and uncountable, plural rents)

1. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.
2. A similar payment for the use of a product, 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.

4. An object for which rent is charged or paid.
5. (obsolete) Income; revenue.
6. (video games) An amount of virtual currency paid by a player to preserve their character, inventory, etc. between gameplay sessions in a multi-user dungeon.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent.

2. (transitive, informal) To grant a lease 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, informal) To be leased or let for rent.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• hire

Etymology 2

See rend.

Noun

rent (plural rents)

1. A tear or rip in some surface.
2. A division or schism.

Translations

Verb

rent

1. simple past and past participle of rend

Adjective

rent (comparative more rent, superlative most rent)

1. That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.

Translations

Anagrams

• Tern, tern, tren

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reːˀnt/, [ˈʁæˀnd̥]

Adjective

rent

1. neuter singular of ren

Adverb

rent

1. purely (morally)
2. purely (excluding other possibility)
3. quite, completely

Derived terms

• gøre rent (“to clean”)
• rent ud (“point-blank”)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnt
• IPA^(key): /rɛnt/

Verb

rent

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

Middle English

Noun

rent

1. rent: income; revenue

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

rent

1. neuter singular of ren

Adverb

rent

1. purely

Verb

rent

1. past participle of renne

References

• “ren” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

rent

1. past participle of renna

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt
• Syllabification: rent

Noun

rent f

1. genitive plural of renta

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reːnt/

Adjective

rent

1. indefinite neuter singular of ren

Adverb

rent (comparative renare, superlative renast)

1. cleanly
2. purely

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English rǒnd, from Old French reont, from Latin rotundus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛnt/

Noun

rent

1. round

Derived terms

• arent

References

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129