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

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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

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 G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay

And the housebande men beside this rente, yelde vnto the Kynges maiestie, a fiueth of their fruictes yerely.

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

His purchas46 was wel better than his rente.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin

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

"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

The habitants then became tenants paying as rent the old cens et rentes.

From A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by George McKinnon Wrong

This is because rentes are supposed to be perpetual.

From The War After the War by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

Therefore, since I was at hand, and would be a wealthy man some day, and indeed even now did very well on my French rentes, he had set his heart on this.

From Oddsfish! by Robert Hugh Benson

We must also give them the credit of having first commenced a public debt, under the name of rentes perpetuelles, which at that time realised eight per cent.

From Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

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