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
The weight of the rescue was not lost on a group gathered at a Lower East Side tenement late last month, when Rachelle Muraca, Cathy Guiga-Tubens and Carmine Guiga met Charles Williams for the very first time in New York City.
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Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026
Fisk developed a modular system of constructing old tenement fronts to place at the face of buildings that’ve been modernized and power-washed over decades.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 7 Jan. 2026
There’s a row of five-story buildings off Fifth Avenue in Park Slope that seem to fit the neighborhood standard for prewar, working-class tenements — a central staircase divvying up ten dark railroad apartments.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Jan. 2026
From dingy midtown basements and old tenement buildings in New York, to Wembley Stadium, on tour with the Harlem Globetrotters, and all the way to Japan and back, table tennis takes Marty around the world.
—Alexandra Jhamb Burns, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026
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Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026
Fisk developed a modular system of constructing old tenement fronts to place at the face of buildings that’ve been modernized and power-washed over decades.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 7 Jan. 2026
There’s a row of five-story buildings off Fifth Avenue in Park Slope that seem to fit the neighborhood standard for prewar, working-class tenements — a central staircase divvying up ten dark railroad apartments.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Jan. 2026
From dingy midtown basements and old tenement buildings in New York, to Wembley Stadium, on tour with the Harlem Globetrotters, and all the way to Japan and back, table tennis takes Marty around the world.
—Alexandra Jhamb Burns, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tenement
Noun
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The result lands somewhere between a boutique hotel suite and a private coastal apartment.—
Angela Tafoya,
Vogue,
9 Mar. 2026
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The development will add a town center, schools and apartments along with more parks and trails.—
Neal Franklin,
Dallas Morning News,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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And the penthouses—oh, the penthouses.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Mar. 2026
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Click here to see all the photos of the triplex penthouse.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Tenement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenement. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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