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tenement

noun
/ˈtɛnɪmənt/

Etymology

From Middle English tenement, from Anglo-Norman tenement (“holding”), from Old French tenement, from Medieval Latin tenimentum, from Latin teneō (“hold”).

  1. derived from teneō — “hold”
  2. derived from tenimentum
  3. derived from tenement
  4. derived from tenement — “holding”
  5. inherited from tenement

Definitions

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

    • He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements.

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

    • The island of Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark.

  3. A dwelling

    A dwelling; abode; habitation.

    • Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?
    • Where she came from no man could tell. There were some said she was no woman, but a ghost haunting some mortal tenement.

The neighborhood

Derived

servient tenement, tenemental

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA