as in apartment house
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Recent Examples of tenement house
The chef’s table inside the kitchen proves the best seat in this early-20th-century tenement house.
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Kasia Dietz, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2026
Shells from the tavern in the basement of Gladstone’s Land, a tenement house in the Scottish capital, filled in gaps in the building’s brickwork.
—Garritt C. Van Dyk, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
The Tenement Museum comprises two preserved tenement houses on the Lower East Side.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 27 May 2025
Whatever the publishers’ intent, these reporters did cover serious news: strikes, presidential races, unsafe factory conditions, overcrowded tenement houses, the aftermath of hurricanes and earthquakes.
—Susan Faludi, The New York Review of Books, 15 Aug. 2024
Windows, at least on paper, have been legally required in all New York City bedrooms since at least 1867, as the city began to introduce new regulations for its cramped, often dangerous tenement houses.
—Curbed, 21 Mar. 2023
Kasia Dietz, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2026
Shells from the tavern in the basement of Gladstone’s Land, a tenement house in the Scottish capital, filled in gaps in the building’s brickwork.
—Garritt C. Van Dyk, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
The Tenement Museum comprises two preserved tenement houses on the Lower East Side.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 27 May 2025
Whatever the publishers’ intent, these reporters did cover serious news: strikes, presidential races, unsafe factory conditions, overcrowded tenement houses, the aftermath of hurricanes and earthquakes.
—Susan Faludi, The New York Review of Books, 15 Aug. 2024
Windows, at least on paper, have been legally required in all New York City bedrooms since at least 1867, as the city began to introduce new regulations for its cramped, often dangerous tenement houses.
—Curbed, 21 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tenement house
Noun
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The heavy equipment was then set to take off the front of the apartment house where the fire began, because investigators still have not determined the cause of the fire and needed access to find out.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
11 June 2026
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At the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 70th Street, one such residence occupies a stately 1920s apartment house designed by renowned architect Rosario Candela.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
28 May 2026
Noun
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The doctor’s office was first floor of an apartment building on Rue d’Amsterdam.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
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An elderly woman is dead after jumping from an apartment building that was on fire in New Haven on Monday night.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
9 June 2026
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“Tenement house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenement%20house. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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