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English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishrent,rente, fromOld Frenchrente, fromEarly Medieval Latinrendita, fromLate Latinrendere, fromLatinreddere.

Noun

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rent (countable anduncountable,pluralrents)

  1. Apayment made by atenant atintervals in order tolease aproperty.
    I am asking £300 a weekrent.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid therent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
    • 1987, “Rent”, inActually, performed byPet Shop Boys:
      We never ever argue, we never calculate / The currency we've spent / I love you, you pay myrent
  2. A similar payment for the use of aproduct,equipment or aservice.
  3. (economics) Aprofit from possession of avaluableright, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
    A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year inrent.
  4. An object for which rent is charged or paid.
  5. (obsolete)Income;revenue.
  6. (video games) An amount ofvirtual currency paid by aplayer topreserve theircharacter,inventory, etc. betweengameplaysessions in amulti-user dungeon.
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Translations
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payment made by a tenant
payment made for the use of equipment or a service

Verb

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rent (third-person singular simple presentrents,present participlerenting,simple past and past participlerented)

  1. (transitive) To take alease ofpremises in exchange for rent.
    Irented a house from my friend's parents for a year.
  2. (transitive, informal) To grant alease in return for rent.
    Werented our house to our son's friend for a year.
  3. (transitive) To obtain or havetemporarypossession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
  4. (intransitive, informal) To beleased orlet for rent.
    The houserents for five hundred dollars a month.
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Translations
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to occupy premises in exchange for rent
to grant occupation in return for rent
obtain/have temporary possession of an object such as a movie
See also
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Etymology 2

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Seerend.

Noun

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rent (pluralrents)

  1. Atear orrip in somesurface.
    • 1876, [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “The Cruel Crawling Foam”, inJoshua Haggard’s Daughter […], volume I, London:John Maxwell and Co. […],→OCLC,page 1:
      [O]ne streak of copper-coloured light made a narrowrent between sea and sky.
    • 1913,D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter X, inSons and Lovers, London:Duckworth & Co. […],→OCLC:
      The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between therents.
    • 2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, inRail, page81:
      The oscillations were getting so severe that painters on the bridge learned to tie down their tins before a train passed. They found holes andrents in the iron but never reported them as they were never asked, and it wasn't their job. These were deferential times, and few wanted to talk out of turn.
  2. Adivision orschism.
    • 2002, Michael B. Oren,Six Days of War: June 1967:
      [T]he White House was considering sending Vice President Humphrey to Cairo to patch up the many rents in U.S.—Egyptian relations.
Translations
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tear or rip
a division or schism between two things.

Verb

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rent

  1. simplepast andpastparticiple ofrend

Adjective

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rent (comparativemorerent,superlativemostrent)

  1. That has beentorn orrent;ripped; torn.
    • 1886 October –1887 January,H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Spirit of Life”, inShe: A History of Adventure, London:Longmans, Green, and Co., published1887,→OCLC,page286:
      Indeed, we could clearly make out the arch and stony banks of this second cave, and, from theirrent and jagged appearance, discovered that, like the first long passage down which we had passed through the cliff before we reached the quivering spur, it had to all appearance been torn in the bowels of the rock by the terrific force of some explosive gas.
    • 1898,George Bernard Shaw,Caesar and Cleopatra:
      Cleopatra isrent by a struggle between her newly-acquired dignity as a queen, and a strong impulse to put out her tongue at him.
Translations
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that has been torn—seeripped

Anagrams

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Danish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /reːˀnt/,[ˈʁæˀnd̥]

Adjective

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rent

  1. neutersingular ofren

Adverb

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rent

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

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Dutch

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Verb

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rent

  1. inflection ofrennen:
    1. second/third-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. (archaic)pluralimperative

Middle English

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Noun

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rent

  1. rent:income;revenue

Norwegian Bokmål

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Adjective

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rent

  1. neutersingular ofren

Adverb

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rent

  1. purely

Verb

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rent

  1. pastparticiple ofrenne

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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rent

  1. pastparticiple ofrenna

Polish

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Noun

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rent f

  1. genitiveplural ofrenta

Swedish

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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rent

  1. indefiniteneutersingular ofren

Adverb

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rent (comparativerenare,superlativerenast)

  1. cleanly
  2. purely

Yola

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishrǒnd, fromOld Frenchreont, fromLatinrotundus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rent

  1. round
    • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, inTHE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page129, line12:
      "Swingale," co the umost, "thou liest well arent,
      "Swindle," said the other, "you know quite well,

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References

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  • Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, inJournal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎[1], volume17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page129
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