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

Noun Inflected Forms

• rentes
  plural

Example Sentences

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rente rentes

For whan he saugh that she ne mighte dwelle, Which that his soule out of his herte rente, 1700 With-outen more, out of the chaumbre he wente.

From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Hungarian rente had at that time just been introduced into the market, and Mr. Dumany predicted for it a fair success.

From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Mór Jókai

In Edward III.’s time, at one fell swoop, the remorseless sea seems to have swallowed up ‘400 houses p. 22which payde rente to the towne towards the fee-farms, besydes certain shops and windmills.’

From East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

These doe not onely liue rente free, but also haue a certaine of graine allowed them at the kinges allowaunce.

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

The yerely rente of that grounde is bestowed vpon sacrifice.

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

For a man to have his name on the Grand Livre is to constitute him what is called a rentier, rentes being the French word for dividends from the public funds.

From France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Latimer

The seigneur had the right to say whether he wanted his rentes in money or in kind, and he naturally chose the former when prices were low and the latter when prices were high.

From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by William Bennett Munro

"Vous comptez vous faire des rentes sur l'etat; * you want to make something out of your company?"

From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count

Cens, surcens and rentes due on real property of different kinds, houses, fields, meadows, etc., situated in the territory of the seigniory.

From The Ancient Regime by John Durand

The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted by Roberte Crowley dwellynge in Elye rentes in Holburne.

From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by W. W. Greg