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

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 Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

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 Hakluyt, Richard

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 Hakluyt, Richard

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 Hakluyt, Richard

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

From Valerie by Marryat, Frederick