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

It turned out that she possessed a small rente which had belonged to her mother, and which her father had never been able to squander.

From The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Down to the present day the great majority of them continue to pay their rente constituee as did their fathers before them.

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

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

His purchas46 was wel better than his rente.

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

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)