Synonyms of tenements

tenements

noun

plural of tenement

as in apartments

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• apartments
• penthouses
• lodgings
• flats
• condominiums
• suites
• digs
• saloons
• diggings
• condos
• studios
• efficiencies
• duplexes
• maisonettes
• triplexes
• flatlets
• walk-ups
• wings
• duplex apartments
• salons
• efficiency apartments
• garden apartments
• railroad flats
• studio apartments
• tenement houses
• granny flats
• bed-sitters
• galleries
• apartment buildings
• apartment houses
• cohousings
• floor-throughs

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tenements

Jet fuel burns as hot as kerosene — twice as hot as wood — and firefighters battle kerosene fires every day in the basements of tenements all over the city. — Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

No one wants to go back to the days of tenements and apartments with insufficient ventilation or light. — Michael Schill, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026

The novel begins with a deadly fire that destroys two tenements. — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 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

The tenements featured in Marty Supreme of course replicated those from the 1950s. — India Roby, Architectural Digest, 27 Feb. 2026

More than half a million residents live in NYCHA development plagued by chronic mold, broken elevators, and heating failures; others reside in subpar tenements run by crooked landlords. — Darius Jones, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 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

The grotty tenements of the Lower East Side — and the distinct fashion within — is as much of a character in A24’s drama as the eponymous ping pong player himself. — Anna Tingley, Variety, 27 Dec. 2025