tenement
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See also: tènement
English
Etymology
From Middle English tenement, from Anglo-Norman tenement (“holding”), from Old French tenement, from Medieval Latin tenimentum, from Latin teneō (“hold”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tenement (plural tenements)
- A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC:
- He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements.
- (law) Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.
- The island of Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark.
- (figurative) A dwelling; abode; habitation.
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. , London: Eliz Holt, for Thomas Basset, , →OCLC:
- Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- Where she came from no man could tell. There were some said she was no woman, but a ghost haunting some mortal tenement.
Synonyms
- (building): tenement house, apartment building
Derived terms
Translations
a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one
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any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned
See also
References
- “tenement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Occitan
Etymology
First attested in the 13th century, From Old Occitan , from Medieval Latin tenimentum, from Latin teneō (“hold”).
Noun
tenement m (plural tenements)
Old French
Etymology
Medieval Latin tenementum, from Latin verb teneō. See the verb tenir.
Noun
tenement oblique singular, m (oblique plural tenemenz or tenementz, nominative singular tenemenz or tenementz, nominative plural tenement)
- holding (of land)