Tenement
['tenəm(ə)nt] or ['tɛnəmənt]
Definition
(noun.) a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards.
Editor: Nell--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.
Editor: Rodney
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. House, dwelling, habitation, domicile.
Checked by Jeannette
Definition
n. anything held or that may be held by a tenant: a dwelling or habitation or part of it used by one family: one of a set of apartments in one building each occupied by a separate family.—adjs. Tenement′al; Tenement′ary.
Checker: Phelps
Examples
- Take possession of your tenement, and let me fly from this place. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Hope and love had quitted that little tenement, for Robert seemed to have deserted its precincts. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It's a six-roomer, exclusive of kitchens, said Mr. Guppy, and in the opinion of my friends, a commodious tenement. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Whither will that spirit--now struggling to quit its material tenement--flit when at length released? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Behold us now in our frail tenement, hemmed in by hungry, roaring waves, buffeted by winds. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Their small tenement made a considerable part of it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When he returned to his lodgings all the lights in the Sedley tenement were put out. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The scene now changes to a small, neat tenement, in the outskirts of Montreal; the time, evening. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The gloom, and must, and dust of the whole tenement, were secret. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Here, too, in this humble tenement, live care, and distrust, and dismay. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- As to the shops and the locality: The street was lined with rather old buildings and poor tenements. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A great many of the tenements had shop-fronts; but these were fast closed, and mouldering away; only the upper rooms being inhabited. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- In tenements, where there is no yard for the family washing, clothes often appear flapping in mid-air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It had, in its day, probably furnished employment to the inhabitants of the surrounding tenements. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Now, these tumbling tenements contain, by night, a swarm of misery. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Typist: Ludwig