tenement
IPA: tˈɛnʌmʌnt
noun
- A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
- (law) Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.
- (figurative) Dwelling; abode; habitation.
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Examples of "tenement" in Sentences
- These became tenements in the 19th century.
- The labourers lived in cramped tenement blocks.
- There were then fourteen tenements in the rents.
- Detroit was not, a city of squalid tenements in 1967.
- His body was found in the hallway of a Manhattan tenement.
- In this yard, daily and public life of the tenement unfolds.
- The building of the former school is renovated and used as a tenement.
- Acrobatic Tenement is the debut album from At the Drive In, released in 1996.
- Here, parcel B is the dominant tenement, and parcel A is the servient estate.
- Buck, now in a state of dilapidation, and let in tenements occupied by pitmen.
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