tenement

/ˈtɛnɪmənt/

noun 3

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(noun.)

ADJ

crowded | crumbling, dilapidated, ruined, run-down | four-storey, two-storeyed, etc.

TENEMENT + NOUN

block, building, house, housing, slum

PREP

in a/the ~

My grandparents raised five children in a small tenement in the city.

Definitions

noun

A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.

He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements.

Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.

The island of Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark.

A dwelling; abode; habitation.

Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?

Where she came from no man could tell. There were some said she was no woman, but a ghost haunting some mortal tenement.

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Example Bank

He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements.

Wiktionary

The island of Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark.

Wiktionary

Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?

Wiktionary

They live in a rundown tenement on 5th St.

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Tom grew up in a tenement.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, tenement is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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