tenement

The definition of a tenement is a run-down or dilapidated apartment building.

(noun)

An apartment building that has boarded up windows, leaky plumbing and barely-working heating is an example of a tenement.

See tenement in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

Origin: ME < OFr, a holding < ML tenementum < L tenere, to hold: see tenant

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See tenement in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A building for human habitation, especially one that is rented to tenants.
A rundown, low-rental apartment building whose facilities and maintenance barely meet minimum standards.
Chiefly British An apartment or room leased to a tenant.
Law Property, such as land, rents, or franchises, held by one person leasing it from another.

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Origin: Middle English, house

Origin: , from Old French

Origin: , from Medieval Latin tenēmentum

Origin: , from Latin tenēre, to hold; see ten- in Indo-European roots

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