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Synonyms for tenement house

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ten-uh-muh nt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɛn ə mənt

Définition of tenement house

Origin :
  • c.1300, "holding of immovable property" (such as land or buildings,) from Anglo-French (late 13c.) and Old French tenement (12c.), from Medieval Latin tenementum "a holding, fief" (11c.), from Latin tenere "to hold" (see tenet). The meaning "dwelling place, residence" is attested from early 15c.; tenement house "house broken up into apartments, usually in a poor section of a city" is first recorded 1858, American English, from tenament in an earlier sense (especially in Scotland) "large house constructed to be let to a number of tenants" (1690s).
  • As in housing project : noun affordable housing
Example sentences :
  • The stone stairs to the tenement house were thronged with women.
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
  • As she crossed the court to her room in the tenement house they heard her "Oh, oh, oh!"
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
  • The one to the left will be a tenement house, with shops and apartments.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 » by Various
  • Remember that every hollow tree is a tenement house of the woods.
  • Extract from : « Woodland Tales » by Ernest Seton-Thompson
  • He took me to a tenement house, in a part of the city that I had never been in before.
  • Extract from : « Beautiful Joe » by Marshall Saunders
  • The two rooms in the tenement house were as neat as care and thrift could make them.
  • Extract from : « Princess Mary's Gift Book » by Various
  • I have never been in a tenement house and I am so anxious to see one.
  • Extract from : « Brenda, Her School and Her Club » by Helen Leah Reed
  • I was standing on the stoop of the tenement house where I boarded.
  • Extract from : « Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist » by Alexander Berkman
  • This was a family domicile and not a community or tenement house.
  • Extract from : « Prairie Smoke (Second Edition, Revised) » by Melvin Randolph Gilmore
  • Jake found Mamie on the sidewalk in front of the tenement house where she lodged.
  • Extract from : « Yekl » by Abraham Cahan

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