Tenement

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tenement
n. place of dwelling; condominium, apartment building


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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


Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
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.
  

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Tenement
Property that could be subject to easements. - (read more on Tenement)
  


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