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tenement
[ten-uh-muhnt]
noun
Also called tenement house.a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.
Law.
any species of permanent property, as lands, houses, rents, an office, or a franchise, that may be held of another.
tenements, freehold interests in things immovable considered as subjects of property.
British.an apartment or room rented by a tenant.
Archaic.any abode or habitation.
tenement
/ ˈtɛnəmənt, ˌtɛnəˈmɛntəl /
noun
Also called: tenement building.(now esp in Scotland) a large building divided into separate flats
a dwelling place or residence, esp one intended for rent
a room or flat for rent
property law any form of permanent property, such as land, dwellings, offices, etc
Other 51Թ Forms
- tenemental adjective
- tenementary adjective
- tenemented adjective
- ˈٱԱˌԳٱ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of tenement1
Example Sentences
A couple whose flat was destroyed in a fatal tenement fire in Perth said they considered "jumping out the building" to escape the blaze.
Riis exposed Lower East Side slum conditions in tenement photographs that would form the basis for his renowned book, “How the Other Half Lives.”
The tenements at Clune Park in the Inverclyde town of Port Glasgow were built a century ago as housing for shipyard workers but have lain mostly abandoned for years.
And so on down the line, in a chain of moves you can trace through the property records, right down to the impoverished immigrant leaving one tenement for a slightly more spacious one.
His beat was the town’s public housing tenements, and Sibley said he quickly worked out that people responded better to persuasion than threats of force or arrest.
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