tenement
noun/ˈtenəmənt/
/ˈtenəmənt/
- a large building divided into flats, especially in a poor area of a city
- a tenement block
- families living in overcrowded tenements
- living in a crowded tenement
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- cramped
- overcrowded
- squalid
- …
- apartment
- block
- building
- …
- in a/the tenement
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘tenure, property held by tenure’): via Old French from medieval Latin tenementum, from tenere ‘to hold’.Want to learn more?
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