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1. (n.) tenement
Also called tenement house. a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, esp. in a poor section of a large city.
2. tenement
Law.
3. tenement
property of a permanent or fixed nature, whether corporeal or incorporeal, as lands or rent.
4. tenement
Archaic. any abode or habitation.
Etymology: (1250–1300; ME < ML tenēmentum= L tenē(re) to hold +-mentum -ment)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) tenement, tenement house
a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
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1. (noun) tenement
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
2. (noun) tenement
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
3. (noun) tenement
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
4. (noun) tenement
fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation
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