tenement
pronunciation
How to pronounce tenement in British English:
UK [ˈtenəmənt]
How to pronounce tenement in American English:
US [ˈtɛnəmənt]
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- Noun:
- a rundown apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
Word Origin
- tenement
- tenement: see tenant
- tenement (n.)
- c. 1300, "holding of immovable property" (such as land or buildings,) from Anglo-French (late 13c.), Old French tenement "fief, land, possessions, property" (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).
Example
- 1. They lived in a crumbling glasgow tenement .
- 2. Never would she escape from this tenement courtyard !
- 3. Discussion about tenement participation in the dwelling house design
- 4. They live in a tenement .
- 5. He lives in a tenement block .