Thesaurus results for TENEMENT

tenement

noun

ˈte-nə-mənt

Definition of tenement

as in apartment

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

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Recent Examples of tenement Which may explain the conversion of 80 Horatio, a pre-law five-story brick tenement building in a prime pocket of the neighborhood, into a single-family house. — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 8 Sep. 2026 This is the era of people really waking up to what tenement life was like. — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2026 Remember the Jets used to leak like century-old Bronx tenement pipes during the Robert Saleh regime. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026 The novel begins with a deadly fire that destroys two tenements. — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tenement

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tenement

Noun

Hebron municipal officials said families had been displaced from nearly 500 apartments in Deir Bahha and surrounding neighborhoods.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
Outrage in Israel Hebron municipal officials said families had been displaced from nearly 500 apartments in Deir Bahha and surrounding neighborhoods.

— Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of apartment

Noun

Rooms Las Alcobas offers a moody-luxe atmosphere with a touch of Mexican influence throughout its 35 surprisingly spacious suites and three penthouses, where dark rosewood and fresh, fragile orchids take center stage.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026
Populated almost entirely by impossibly wealthy characters reveling in penthouse splendor, the Astaire-Rogers movies argued with high style against the proposition that the material and social rewards of wealth were dubious.

— David Hajdu, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026