rente

American  

[rahnt] / rɑ̃t /

noun

French.

rentes plural

1. revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.

2. Also called rentes sur l'état.  rentes. perpetual bonds issued by the French government.

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rente British  

/ rɑ̃t /

noun

1. annual income from capital investment; annuity

2. government securities of certain countries, esp France

3. the interest on such securities

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• rentes
  plural

Example Sentences

For catel hadde they y-nogh and rente, And eek hir wyves wolde it wel assente; And elles certain were they to blame.

From Chaucer and His Times by Hadow, Grace E.

“But twenty-five hundred livres de rente are not a husband, Valerie.”

From Valerie by Marryat, Frederick

"And from her head ofte rente her snarled heare."

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Hakluyt, Richard

Florent behihte hire good ynowh Of lond, of rente, of park, of plowh, Bot al that compteth sche at noght.

From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)

He prophesied the rente conversion scheme and the four per cent. bonds, and from this topic we diverged to politics.

From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Jókai, Mór