tenement.
A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
Meaning & usage
A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
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.
A dwelling; abode; habitation.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English tenement, from Anglo-Norman tenement (“holding”), from Old French tenement, from Medieval Latin tenimentum, from Latin teneō (“hold”).
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