tenement
n.
place of dwelling; condominium, apartment building
Apartment building
An apartment building, block of flats or tenement is a
multi-unit dwelling made up of several (generally four or more)
apartments (US) or flats (UK). Where the building is a high-rise construction, it is termed a
tower block in the UK and elsewhere. The term apartment building is used regardless of height in the US.
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tenement
Noun
1. a rundown apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
(synonym) tenement house
(hypernym) apartment building, apartment house
Tenement
(n.)
That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
(n.)
Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.
(n.)
Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements.
(n.)
A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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