Tenement

Word TENEMENT
Character 8
Hyphenation ten e ment
Pronunciations /ˈtɛnɪmənt/

Definitions and meanings of "Tenement"

What do we mean by tenement?

A building for human habitation, especially one that is rented to tenants. noun

A rundown, low-rental apartment building whose facilities and maintenance barely meet minimum standards. noun

An apartment or room leased to a tenant. noun

A property of a permanent nature that is possessed or owned, such as land or a building, along with the rights associated with such possession or ownership. noun

A holding; a parcel of land held by an owner. noun

In law, any species of permanent property that may be held of a superior, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, etc. These are called free tenements or frank-tenements. noun

A dwelling inhabited by a tenant; a dwelling; an abode; a habitation; a home. noun

One of a number of apartments or sets of apartments in one building, each occupied by a separate family, and containing the conveniences of a common dwelling-house. noun

See the adjectives. noun

Synonyms See definitions of flat and apartment. noun

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. noun

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 tenements or frank tenements. noun

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. noun

Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation. noun

A tenement house. noun

Commonly, a dwelling house erected for the purpose of being rented, and divided into separate apartments or tenements for families. The term is often applied to apartment houses occupied by poor families, often overcrowded and in poor condition. noun

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

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

A run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards noun

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

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

Dwelling; abode; habitation.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Tenement

The word "tenement" in example sentences

God had never been in the tenement -- _God had never been in the tenement_! ❋ Unknown (1937)

"I went to the tenement every afternoon," she admitted, "to the _tenement_. ❋ Unknown (1937)

The term tenement at that time did not have the negative connotation that it has today. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Having a new high-rise next to a prewar tenement is the sort of great juxtaposition of past and present that keeps New York City interesting," she said. ❋ Craig Karmin (2010)

A Contract with God is a collection of four short stories, all set in tenement at 55 Dropsie Avenue, The Bronx, New York, somewhere in the 1930's. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A definition of the word tenement in law is: Property, such as land, held by one person "leasing" it to another. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This tenement is new also because of the pedagogical organisation of the "Children's House". ❋ Anne E. Montessori George (1912)

Now, a tenement is not a building that is stuck up in a ramshackle way on one of the streets in the lowest ward of the city. ❋ Unknown (1911)

During the many relief visits I paid that winter in tenement houses and miserable lodgings, I was constantly shadowed by a certain sense of shame that I should be comfortable in the midst of such distress. ❋ Unknown (1910)

The locality abounds in tenement houses, where the class of persons live of which the mob is composed, and into these buildings the mass of the rioters took refuge on the appearance of the soldiers. ❋ Unknown (1863)

When you hear the word tenement it might conjure up images of dark, run down and overcrowded late 19th century apartment living. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Many of the foreign-born women of the ward were much shocked by this abrupt departure into the ways of men, and it took a great deal of explanation to convey the idea even remotely that if it were a womanly task to go about in tenement houses in order to nurse the sick, it might be quite as womanly to go through the same district in order to prevent the breeding of so-called "filth diseases." ❋ Unknown (1910)

It is not the first time I toured places such as the so-called tenement dwellings and I went into a room where people live to see how many live there and what they do. ❋ Unknown (1989)

The majority of dwellings used to belong to persons called tenement owners. ❋ Unknown (1989)

Pardo Llada: Now, this is in reference to Articles 25 and 26 of the law where it says that the ownership of real estate destined for the so-called tenement houses, the apartment houses, will be transferred to the state, without the owners getting anything at all. ❋ Unknown (1960)

The tenement was a good one, to be sure, when we found it, -- large and lofty apartments with many windows, commanding a fine view. ❋ Minerva Brace Norton (N/A)

The young girl closed the door, whereupon there came a gay chirping from birds perching, the bewildered lawyer discovered, in various places around the room quite as though this corner of a tenement was a woodland. ❋ Jane Abbott (N/A)

In 1869 a tenement was a house occupied by four families or more. [back] ❋ Unknown (1890)

In 1888, a tenement was a house occupied by three families or more. [back] ❋ Unknown (1890)

Probably more than half of all the Bohemians in this city are cigarmakers, and it is the herding of these in great numbers in the so-called tenement factories, where the cheapest grade of work is done at the lowest wages, that constitutes at once their greatest hardship and the chief grudge of other workmen against them. ❋ Unknown (1890)

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