Definition of "tenement" []

• A building for human habitation, especially one that is rented to tenants. (noun)
• A rundown, low-rental apartment building whose facilities and maintenance barely meet minimum standards. (noun)
• Chiefly British An apartment or room leased to a tenant. (noun)
• Law Property, such as land, rents, or franchises, held by one person leasing it from another. (noun)

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• "God had never been in the tenement -- _God had never been in the tenement_!"
• ""I went to the tenement every afternoon," she admitted, "to the _tenement_."
• "The term tenement at that time did not have the negative connotation that it has today."