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Tenement

//ˈtɛnɪmənt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.

    "He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements."

  2. 2
    a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards wordnet
  3. 3
    Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.

    "The island of Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark."

  4. 4
    A dwelling; abode; habitation. figuratively

    "Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?"

Etymology

From Middle English tenement, from Anglo-Norman tenement (“holding”), from Old French tenement, from Medieval Latin tenimentum, from Latin teneō (“hold”).

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