tenement house

noun

|Updated on: 7 Jul 2018

Definition of tenement house

: apartment building; especially : one meeting minimum standards of sanitation, safety, and comfort and usually located in a city

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Recent Examples of tenement house from the Web

Taken from tenement houses, or row houses, the remnants are from archaeological digs spanning 11 years as researchers and historians piece them together to create a picture of the lives of these workers.

— caroline blackmon, Detroit Free Press, "Digging for mid-1800s trash uncovers lives of Corktown residents," 1 July 2018

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