Tenement - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈtenəmənt|
Brit.
|ˈtenəm(ə)nt|
noun
- a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
Extra examples
...an exhibit of pictures showing the tenements of the New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen during the 1920s...
...in an insurance scam, the slumlord hired a torch to burn the tenement down...
...the rows of abandoned, boarded-up tenement houses made for a rather plutonian landscape...
Word forms
noun
singular: tenement
plural: tenements
singular: tenement
plural: tenements
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