tenement

tenement

noun

Definition of TENEMENT

a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place <an exhibit of pictures showing the tenements of the New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen during the 1920s>

Synonyms diggings [chiefly British], digs, flat [chiefly British], lodgings, suite, tenement

Related Words bed-sitter (also bedsit or bed-sitting-room) [British], cohousing, condo, condominium, duplex, duplex apartment, efficiency, efficiency apartment, flatlet [British], floor-through, garden apartment, granny flat [chiefly British], maisonette, penthouse, railroad flat, salon, saloon [chiefly British], studio, studio apartment, triplex, walk-up; gallery, wing; apartment building, apartment house, tenement house