as in apartment
a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place
an exhibit of pictures showing the tenements of the New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen during the 1920s
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Recent Examples of tenement
Several prostitutes rented tenements from the convent of St. Catherine, and Marguerite Busaffi, daughter of a prominent banker, owned a brothel in the city.
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Joelle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
Ng writes of growing up among these bachelors, who spend their days drifting around the crowded tenements of Chinatown.
—Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
Evidence of Mumbai’s colonial past can be found in the city’s chawls, rickety tenement flats stacked upon each other like depressing LEGO blocks.
—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025
At the same time, the Lower East Side increasingly hosts a population of pricey restaurants, little boutiques, and buyers and renters younger than 40 whose great-grandparents might have lived in tenements on those same blocks.
—Frederick Peters, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
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Joelle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
Ng writes of growing up among these bachelors, who spend their days drifting around the crowded tenements of Chinatown.
—Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
Evidence of Mumbai’s colonial past can be found in the city’s chawls, rickety tenement flats stacked upon each other like depressing LEGO blocks.
—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025
At the same time, the Lower East Side increasingly hosts a population of pricey restaurants, little boutiques, and buyers and renters younger than 40 whose great-grandparents might have lived in tenements on those same blocks.
—Frederick Peters, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tenement
Noun
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Pets belonging to people who are deported or flee are being left in empty apartments, dumped into the laps of unprepared friends and dropped off at overcrowded shelters, The Times found.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 July 2025
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But one apartment on the first floor has a bad odor that emanates from it when walking past the door.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
12 July 2025
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Within are five bedrooms with their own private terraces, a landscaped patio area and infinity pool—a new penthouse poster child for elevated standards.—
Michelle Tchea,
Robb Report,
3 July 2025
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The sale marked a new record for most expensive penthouse sold in Downtown Nashville.—
Molly Davis,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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“Tenement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenement. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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