tenement
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tenement
- /ˈtɛnɪmənt/
Where it comes from
From Middle English tenement, from Anglo-Norman tenement (“holding”), from Old French tenement, from Medieval Latin tenimentum, from Latin teneō (“hold”).
noun tenements
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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.
Similar: tenement house, apartment building
- 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.
- A dwelling; abode; habitation. Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?
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noun a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one
| Español | casa de vecindad, vecindad, bloque de viviendas, inquilinato, solar, conventillo |
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| Português | cortiço |
| Français | appartement, logement |
| Deutsch | Mietskaserne, Wohnungsblock, Wohnblock |
| Italiano | casamento, condominio, case popolari, casermone |
noun any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned
| Deutsch | Mietshaus |
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| Русский | арендованное иму́щество arendovannoje imúščestvo |
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