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Definition of Tenement
1. Noun. A run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards.
Definition of Tenement
1. 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.
Definition of Tenement
1. Noun. a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one ¹
2. Noun. (legal) any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tenement
1. an apartment house [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenement
Literary usage of Tenement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Calendar of Patent Rolls, Preserved in the Public Record Office by Great Britain Public Record Office (1907)
"... out of a tenement of the abbot and convent of Hyde in the same street, 6'/.
of rent from Geoffrey le Baker out of a tenement which Joan la ..."
2. The Making of America by Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins (1906)
"The result was the New York State tenement House commission of 1900, the enactment
last year of the most advanced code of tenement house laws as yet put in ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"The conversion and change of houses into French flats or apartment houses Is a
violation of a covenant not to erect a tenement house, as a building which ig ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"tenement HOUSE, a multiple dwelling arranged for the occupation ... tenement house
is a generic term, including what are popularly called apartment houses ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"tenement HOUSE, a multiple dwelling arranged for the occupation of several families,
... tenement house is a generic term, including what are popularly ..."
6. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1907)
"Comparative stmt. showing increase in no. of licenses for tenement ... No.
and sex of persons engaged in tenement house industries. (Bull. v. ..."
7. The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by Richard Henry Tawney (1912)
"{am land of the tenement Scutt. | aere land of the tenement ... 3 roods land of
the tenement Gilbert. 1 acre and 1 rood of the tenement ..."
8. Principles of Labor Legislation by John Rogers Commons, John Bertram Andrews (1920)
"tenement House Manufacture. Difficult as are the problems connected with the
regulation of labor conditions in factories, they are not more troublesome than ..."
9. Calendar of Patent Rolls, Preserved in the Public Record Office by Great Britain Public Record Office (1907)
"... out of a tenement of the abbot and convent of Hyde in the same street, 6'/.
of rent from Geoffrey le Baker out of a tenement which Joan la ..."
10. The Making of America by Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins (1906)
"The result was the New York State tenement House commission of 1900, the enactment
last year of the most advanced code of tenement house laws as yet put in ..."
11. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"The conversion and change of houses into French flats or apartment houses Is a
violation of a covenant not to erect a tenement house, as a building which ig ..."
12. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"tenement HOUSE, a multiple dwelling arranged for the occupation ... tenement house
is a generic term, including what are popularly called apartment houses ..."
13. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"tenement HOUSE, a multiple dwelling arranged for the occupation of several families,
... tenement house is a generic term, including what are popularly ..."
14. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1907)
"Comparative stmt. showing increase in no. of licenses for tenement ... No.
and sex of persons engaged in tenement house industries. (Bull. v. ..."
15. The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by Richard Henry Tawney (1912)
"{am land of the tenement Scutt. | aere land of the tenement ... 3 roods land of
the tenement Gilbert. 1 acre and 1 rood of the tenement ..."
16. Principles of Labor Legislation by John Rogers Commons, John Bertram Andrews (1920)
"tenement House Manufacture. Difficult as are the problems connected with the
regulation of labor conditions in factories, they are not more troublesome than ..."
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