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Synonyms for tenements

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

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Définition of tenements

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).
  • noun apartment house
Example sentences :
  • I'm always amused when I read about the suffering in the tenements.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • I went with Nora Ganey into the very poorest of all the tenements down by the docks.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • Things are so wrong in the tenements that big reforms are needed.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • The surveyor of Hartwell also notes that the "tenements there be in decay."
  • Extract from : « The Enclosures in England » by Harriett Bradley
  • She came right down into the tenements and talked with our women-folks.
  • Extract from : « A Woman for Mayor » by Helen M. Winslow
  • It isn't much that I ask, just for you to speak to the tenements.
  • Extract from : « Mary Rose of Mifflin » by Frances R. Sterrett
  • They were close to the Tenements now, and Sam'l looked as if he were on his way to be hanged.
  • Extract from : « Auld Licht Idylls » by J. M. Barrie
  • These were boroughs in which all holders of tenements where a pot could be boiled had votes.
  • Extract from : « William Pitt and the Great War » by John Holland Rose
  • It was to see protégés of her own that Mary had gone to the tenements.
  • Extract from : « Mary Ware's Promised Land » by Annie Fellows Johnston
  • We have come to regard all mortal bodies as the tenements of immortal souls.
  • Extract from : « The Orchard of Tears » by Sax Rohmer
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