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Synonyms for tenement

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ten-uh-muh nt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɛn ə mənt

Top 10 synonyms for tenement
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Définition of tenement

Origin :
  • c.1300, "holding of immovable property" (such as land or buildings,) from Anglo-French (late 13c.) and Old French tenement (12c.), from Medieval Latin tenementum "a holding, fief" (11c.), from Latin tenere "to hold" (see tenet). The meaning "dwelling place, residence" is attested from early 15c.; tenement house "house broken up into apartments, usually in a poor section of a city" is first recorded 1858, American English, from tenament in an earlier sense (especially in Scotland) "large house constructed to be let to a number of tenants" (1690s).
  • noun apartment house
Example sentences :
  • Just children and children and children and tenement houses.
  • Extract from : « Gloria and Treeless Street » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
  • That evening everyone in the tenement was discussing Coupeau's strange malady.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • The stone stairs to the tenement house were thronged with women.
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
  • As she crossed the court to her room in the tenement house they heard her "Oh, oh, oh!"
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
  • I must hire some tenement to move into when I have to leave here.
  • Extract from : « The Young Miner » by Horatio Alger, Jr.
  • There was time for me to try to earn my living; or at least the rent of our tenement.
  • Extract from : « The Promised Land » by Mary Antin
  • Who would feel cramped in a tenement, with such royal privileges as these?
  • Extract from : « The Promised Land » by Mary Antin
  • They form the tenement district, or, in the newer phrase, the slums of Boston.
  • Extract from : « The Promised Land » by Mary Antin
  • But the majority of the mansions had been turned into Italian tenement houses.
  • Extract from : « Still Jim » by Honor Willsie Morrow
  • And think of having to pay no rent, nor of having to live upstairs in a tenement!
  • Extract from : « The Friendly Road » by (AKA David Grayson) Ray Stannard Baker
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