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
Miller begins at the beginning, the 1910 Sicilian migration to America where the Scorseses settled in a Soho tenement.
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Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
At one point, Lloyd tells the students about a parade near the Moores' tenement, celebrating the passage of the 15th Amendment, which granted Black men the right to vote.
—Cory Turner, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
In 1909, just a few days after their mother, Sara, gave birth to Daniel, one of these boys, four-year-old George, fell to his death while playing on the roof of their tenement building on the Lower East Side.
—David Kamp, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
Only in New York can a child raised in a tenement in Bushwick, who once worked as a squeegee boy and a mailroom clerk, rise to become mayor.
—Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025
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Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
At one point, Lloyd tells the students about a parade near the Moores' tenement, celebrating the passage of the 15th Amendment, which granted Black men the right to vote.
—Cory Turner, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
In 1909, just a few days after their mother, Sara, gave birth to Daniel, one of these boys, four-year-old George, fell to his death while playing on the roof of their tenement building on the Lower East Side.
—David Kamp, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
Only in New York can a child raised in a tenement in Bushwick, who once worked as a squeegee boy and a mailroom clerk, rise to become mayor.
—Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tenement
Noun
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On Three’s Company, Ritter played Jack, the third roommate in Janet and Chrissy’s two-bedroom apartment.—
Julie Tremaine,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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Diana was allowed to keep her apartments at Kensington Palace for life.—
StyleCaster Editors,
StyleCaster,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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According to the lawsuit, the condo association told Verizon in August that the weight of its antennas had damaged exterior masonry walls on a rooftop penthouse.—
David Hudnall,
Kansas City Star,
6 Jan. 2026
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The hotel now has new club-level accommodations and a sprawling two-bedroom penthouse Residence Suite, as well as the largest spa in the city.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
30 Dec. 2025
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“Tenement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenement. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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