meaning of tenement
1. 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.
2. Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements.
3. A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.
4. Fig. : Dwelling; abode; habitation.
5. a rundown apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
Related Words
tenement | tenement district | tenement house | tenemental | tenementary |
