noun. 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. An apartment or room leased to a tenant.

noun. A property of a permanent nature that is possessed or owned, such as land or a building, along with the rights associated with such possession or ownership.

noun. A holding; a parcel of land held by an owner.

noun. In law, any species of permanent property that may be held of a superior, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, etc. These are called free tenements or frank-tenements.

noun. A dwelling inhabited by a tenant; a dwelling; an abode; a habitation; a home.

noun. One of a number of apartments or sets of apartments in one building, each occupied by a separate family, and containing the conveniences of a common dwelling-house.

noun. See the adjectives.

noun. Synonyms See definitions of flat and apartment.

noun. That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.

noun. Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free tenements or frank tenements.

noun. A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.

noun. Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.

noun. A tenement house.

noun. commonly, a dwelling house erected for the purpose of being rented, and divided into separate apartments or tenements for families. The term is often applied to apartment houses occupied by poor families, often overcrowded and in poor condition.

noun. a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one

noun. any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned

noun. a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards

"God had never been in the tenement -- _God had never been in the tenement_!"

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Augean stables  abode  acres  apartment  apartment house  

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