Definition of tenements Tenements

/tɛˈnʌmʌnts/ - [tenumunts] -

We found 3 definitions of tenements from 2 different sources.

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What does tenements mean?

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  • tenements (Noun)
    Plural of tenement.

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WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

Plural: tenements

tenement - a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
  tenement house
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  • tenement (Noun)
    A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
  • tenement (Noun)
    Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • tenement (n.)
    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.
  • tenement (n.)
    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 / frank tenements.
  • tenement (n.)
    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.
  • tenement (n.)
    Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • tenement
    ten′e-ment, n. anything held, or that may be held, by a tenant: a dwelling or habitation, or part of it, used by one family: one of a set of apartments in one building, each occupied by a separate family.—adjs. Tenement′al; Tenement′ary

Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅

  • tenement
    A widow's weeds; also an atchievement marking the death of a husband, set up on the outside of a mansion: both supposed to indicate that the dolorous widow wants a male comforter.

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