tenement

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  1. noun A building for human habitation, especially one that is rented to tenants.
  2. noun A rundown, low-rental apartment building whose facilities and maintenance barely meet minimum standards.
  3. noun Chiefly British An apartment or room leased to a tenant.
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  • He explained that just around the corner of the tenement was a vacant lot, in the middle of which was a getaway car that'd crashed a few minutes ago after a high-speed pursuit. —  The Vanished Man
  • Behind the tenement was a metal garage, which had been repainted without being scraped. —  Stranger in Paradise
  • More grateful for her instrument in its present vocal estate (or tenement, as she has been a New Yorker for years), were five "Rossyan fok songs," in which the audience was invited to join her. —  Opera Today
  • That Trench Town tenement, along with Ford's benevolent nature, was the key influence for Marley's hit from his "Natty Dread" album. —  Latest News - UPI.com
  • FMG lawyer Michael Corboy told the media outside the court that the tenement was just one of many over the claim area.
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  1. Middle English, house, from Old French, from Medieval Latin tenēmentum, from Latin tenēre, to hold; see ten- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English tenement, from Old French tenement, French tènement = Provencal tenement, from Late Latin tenementum, a holding, fief, from Latin tenere, hold: see tenant.
 

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