Meaning of Tenement | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
2. Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.
3. A dwelling; abode; habitation.
   figuratively

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Examples

“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.”

“The island of Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark.”

“Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?”

“Where she came from no man could tell. There were some said she was no woman, but a ghost haunting some mortal tenement.”

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