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tenements

tenements is the plural of tenement.

Meaning of tenement

Noun

tenement (plural tenements)

  1. A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
    • 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.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
  2. 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.
  3. (figuratively) A dwelling; abode; habitation.
    • Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC

Phrases with tenements

Questions about tenements

What is tenements the plural of?
Tenements is the plural of tenement.

Words near tenements in the dictionary

  1. tenemented
  2. tenementer
  3. tenementers
  4. tenementization
  5. tenementlike
  6. tenements
  7. Tenenbaum
  8. Tenenbaums
  9. tenendas
  10. tenendum
  11. tenendums

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