rents
noun
[ rɛnts ]
• a person's parents.
• "are your rents still in town?"
Origin:
1960s: abbreviation.
rent
noun
• a tenant's regular payment to a landlord for the use of property or land.
• "I cannot even afford to pay the rent on this flat"
rent
verb
• pay someone for the use of (something, typically property, land, or a car).
• "they rented a house together in Sussex"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French rente, from a root shared by render.
rent
noun
• a large tear in a piece of fabric.
• "Eddie was dismayed by the rent in the roof of the tent"
Similar:
rip,
tear,
split,
hole,
gash,
slash,
slit,
opening,
perforation,
gorge,
chasm,
fault,
rift,
fissure,
crevasse,
cleft,
crack,
breach,
break,
fracture,
rupture,
Origin:
mid 16th century: from obsolete rent ‘pull to pieces, lacerate’, variant of rend.
