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tenement::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | tenement house |
| Type of | apartment building, apartment house |
Examples of tenement
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It was in a Bronx tenement, on a fourth-floor landing, 4 o'clock in the morning.
From the cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com
I still cringe when I hear the nickname of the tenement house fifty years later.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Rome contained about 1,700 private houses and 47,000 insulae or tenement blocks.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The bleakness of the world outside the cramped tenement apartment is pervasive.
From the sfgate.com
In 1907 the house was taken down and replaced by an Art Nouveau tenement block.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The almshouse was replaced 1955-57 by a community-subsidized tenement building.
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Fare was formed by local people and in 1997 took up home in a rundown tenement.
From the guardian.co.uk
Tenement Crasher appears to be a solid option as a late game surprise finisher.
From the forbes.com
St Pancras clocktower rises above tenement blocks in King's Cross in the 1980s.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- A run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
- An apartment (in US English) or flat (in British English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building. Such a building may be called an apartment building or apartment house, especially if it consists of many apartments for rent. ...
- A tenement (from the Latin to hold), in law, is anything that is held, rather than owned. This usage is a holdover from feudalism, which still forms the basis of all real-estate law in the English-speaking world.
- 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
- (Tenements) All rights in land passing with a conveyance thereof.
- (Tenements) A word in a deed referring to any buildings on the property.
- (Tenements) Built by a landlord, tenements were small housing units that were extremely overcrowded, poorly built, and that contained filth. There was a lack of fresh air and light in these housing units, and in addition, they were inhabited mainly by new immigrants. ...
- (Tenements) Possessions that are permanent and fixed; structures attached to land.
- (Tenements) Rights that transfer with the real property.
