publican vs tenant

publican

noun
  • The manager or owner of a hotel. 

  • A tax collector, especially one working in Judea and Galilee during New Testament times (1st century C.E.) who was generally regarded as sinful for extorting more tax than was due, and as a traitor for serving the Roman Empire. 

  • The landlord (manager or owner) of a public house (“a bar or tavern, often also selling food and sometimes lodging; a pub”). 

tenant

noun
  • One who holds a lease (a tenancy). 

  • One who owns real estate other than via allodial title. 

  • Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application. 

  • One who holds a feudal tenure in real property. 

  • One who has possession of any place. 

verb
  • To hold as, or be, a tenant. 

  • To inhabit. 

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