A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.
I am asking £300 a week rent.
A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.
A tear or rip in some surface.
[O]ne streak of copper-coloured light made a narrow rent between sea and sky.
To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent.
I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.
To grant a lease in return for rent.
That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.
Indeed, we could clearly make out the arch and stony banks of this second cave, and, from their rent 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.
A surname.
From Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.
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We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.
simple past and past participle of rend