tenement
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English tenement, from Anglo-Norman tenement, from Old French tenement, from Medieval Latin tenimentum, from Latin teneō.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈtɛnɪmənt/
tenement (plural tenements)
- A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC ↗:
- He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements.
- (legal) Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.
- The island of Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark.
- (figurative) A dwelling; abode; habitation.
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC ↗:
- Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- Where she came from no man could tell. There were some said she was no woman, but a ghost haunting some mortal tenement.
- (building) tenement house, apartment building
- French: appartement, logement
- German: Mietskaserne, Wohnungsblock
- Italian: casamento, condominio, case popolari, casermone
- Portuguese: cortiço
- Spanish: casa de vecindad, vecindad, bloque de viviendas, inquilinato, (Peru) solar, conventillo
- German: Mietshaus
- Russian: арендованное имущество
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