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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 calledtenement 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
Derived Forms
- tenemental, adjective
- ˈٱԱˌԳٱ, adjective
Other yvlog Forms
- ٱ···ٲ [ten-, uh, -, men, -tl], ٱ···ٲ· [ten-, uh, -, men, -t, uh, -ree], adjective
- ٱ·Գ· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of tenement1
Example Sentences
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.
Mr Mitchell said descriptions of the tavern, which occupied the ground floor of a tall tenement, gave an impression of the claustrophobic confines of the Old Town.
In a small, crowded tenement in the slums of India's Pune city, Shailaja Paik grew up, surrounded by alleys strewn with garbage and battling the daily challenges of limited water and no private toilet.
Morton was found guilty of indecently assaulting a woman in a tenement close in Glasgow in 1936.
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