Tenement Synonyms

tĕnə-mənt
A run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. tenement house
  2. apartment house
  3. slum-dwelling
  4. project
  5. housing project
  6. low-income housing
  7. eyesore
  8. firetrap

Words Related to Tenement

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. home
  2. hotel
  3. messuage
  4. copyhold
  5. dwelling house
  6. demesne
  7. mansion house
  8. burgage
  9. water mill
  10. manor-house
  11. copyholder
  12. barony
  13. Frowyk
  14. manor-farm
  15. Kingshold
  16. farm-house
  17. Bibbesworth
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Tenement Sentence Examples

  • The birthplace of Longfellow is now a tenement house.

  • I had lived in a tenement slum all my life.

  • This notion of the influence of the tenement is well adapted to feudal notions and makes itself felt again in the case of the pursuit of a fugitive villein.

  • Cornelius Vanderbilt was for several years the proprietor of the Bellona Hotel of New Brunswick, now a tenement house.

  • He was one of the founders of the Free Art League, of the International Copyright League, and of the Authors' Club; was chairman of the New York Tenement House Commission in 18 9 4; and was a prominent member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, of the Council of the National Civil Service Reform League, and of the executive committee of the Citizens' Union of New York City.

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