tenant vs dwell

tenant is a noun but dwell is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tenant	Yes	No	Yes	No
dwell	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, dwell is a hypernym of tenant; that is, dwell is a word with a broader meaning than tenant:

Other hypernyms of tenant include inhabit, live, populate.

tenant (noun)	dwell (noun)
someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
any occupant who dwells in a place
a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)

tenant (verb)	dwell (verb)
occupy as a tenant	think moodily or anxiously about something
	come back to
	be an inhabitant of or reside in
	originate (in)
	exist or be situated within