rente

American  

[rahnt] / rɑ̃t /

noun

French.

plural

rentes

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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Example Sentences

Since then he has been a gentleman of leisure, travelling abroad and living on his rentes.”

From Literature

When his three per cent. rentes secure him this sum, he retires from business, and gives his younger fellow-creatures a chance.

From Project Gutenberg

The Canadian seigneur held his lands of the King, and the habitants, or cultivators of the soil, held theirs of the seigneur upon the performance of specific duties and the payment of cens et rente.

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Such a sum, in the hands of an ordinary Frenchwoman would never have remained on deposit for that length of time untouched, but, if not needed, would have been promptly invested in rentes.

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Nearly all had stood behind counters or at cashiers' desks, and had thus never learned more strictly feminine employments, and now, retired upon their rentes, they found time heavy upon their hands.

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