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 George Ryoichi Ariyoshi was born March 12, 1926, in a two-room tenement near Honolulu Harbor to parents who immigrated to Hawaii from Japan. — ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026 The Old Town stacks itself along a volcanic ridge, medieval tenements climbing toward the castle that made Rudolf Bing think of Salzburg. — Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 13 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 See All Example Sentences for tenement

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Meanwhile, the national median rent was $1,388 per month as of July 2026, according to a separate report from apartment search platform Apartment List.

— Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
The footage also showed federal agents were by the apartment front door and Neal was at a significant distance when the shooting occurred, according to Wharton.

— Juliana Kim, NPR, 23 Aug. 2026