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
George Ryoichi Ariyoshi was born March 12, 1926, in a two-room tenement near Honolulu Harbor to parents who immigrated to Hawaii from Japan.
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ABC News,
20 Apr. 2026
What if the education system taught kids how to cook good food and grow a garden, even on the balcony of a tenement apartment?
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Aaron Everitt,
STAT,
10 Apr. 2026
Lopes needed an adult role model and one came along in the coach at an opposing high school, Mike Sarkesian, who grew up in a Providence tenement but became the basketball coach and athletic director at Iowa Wesleyan College the year Lopes graduated from high school.
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Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
German Jews—my people—were far less numerous, most of them came to the United States earlier, and their typical first occupation was peddling, which entailed wandering through non-Jewish areas, not living in tenements.
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Adam Kirsch,
The Atlantic,
23 Mar. 2026
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ABC News,
20 Apr. 2026
What if the education system taught kids how to cook good food and grow a garden, even on the balcony of a tenement apartment?
—
Aaron Everitt,
STAT,
10 Apr. 2026
Lopes needed an adult role model and one came along in the coach at an opposing high school, Mike Sarkesian, who grew up in a Providence tenement but became the basketball coach and athletic director at Iowa Wesleyan College the year Lopes graduated from high school.
—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
German Jews—my people—were far less numerous, most of them came to the United States earlier, and their typical first occupation was peddling, which entailed wandering through non-Jewish areas, not living in tenements.
—
Adam Kirsch,
The Atlantic,
23 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tenement
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In a scandal that rocked the business, Davis was fired from Columbia in May 1973, accused of defrauding the company of $94,000 in expense-account violations, including paying for his son Fred’s bar mitzvah and a renovation of his apartment.
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Attorneys filed the lawsuit on behalf of Eric Peters, who was working from home in his second-floor apartment in The Clyde when the explosion happened on May 28.
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The knockout is a seven-bedroom penthouse spanning 8,062 square feet that comes with its own chef, butler, driver, and private entrance.
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The single marks her fifteenth to dominate the chart, and Swift now sits alone in third place on the ranking of artists that have climbed into the penthouse most frequently.
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“Tenement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenement. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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