tenement
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ə noun
1.
Also called tenement house. a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.
2.
Law.
a.
any species of permanent property, as lands, houses, rents, an office, or a franchise, that may be held of another.
b.
tenements, freehold interests in things immovable considered as subjects of property.
3.
British. an apartment or room rented by a tenant.
4.
Archaic. any abode or habitation.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Medieval Latin tenēmentum, equivalent to Latin tenē(re) to hold + -mentum -ment
1250–1300; Middle English < Medieval Latin tenēmentum, equivalent to Latin tenē(re) to hold + -mentum -ment
Related forms
ten·e·ment·ed, adjective
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| —n | |
| 1. | Also called: tenement building (now esp in Scotland) a large building divided into separate flats |
| 2. | a dwelling place or residence, esp one intended for rent |
| 3. | chiefly (Brit) a room or flat for rent |
| 4. | property law any form of permanent property, such as land, dwellings, offices, etc |
| [C14: from Medieval Latin tenementum, from Latin tenēre to hold] | |
| tenemental | |
| —adj | |
| tene'mentary | |
| —adj | |
| 'tenemented | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
tenement
c.1300, "holding of immovable property" (such as land or buildings,) from Anglo-Fr. (1292) and O.Fr. tenement (12c.), from M.L. tenementum "a holding, fief" (1081), from L. tenere "to hold" (see tenet). The meaning "dwelling place, residence" is attested from c.1425; tenement
house "house broken up into apartments, usually in a poor section of a city" is first recorded 1858, Amer.Eng., from tenament in an earlier sense (esp. in Scotland) "large house constructed to be let to a number of tenants" (1693).
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Example sentences
Many of those who resided in the city lived in rental apartments or tenement housing.
Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair.
We get a tenement neighborhood, the details faithfully recreated.
Our frozen alarm and fascination carried us into the void of the dead tenement.
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