Meaning & use
tenement
A large building, especially in a poor urban area, divided into apartments that are often small and run-down.
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The family of six shared two rooms in a crowded tenement on the Lower East Side.
City officials condemned the old tenement after inspectors found serious structural damage.
A note on using this word
Strongly associated with crowded, low-income urban housing of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Words with a similar meaning
apartment building
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