"tenement" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtɛnɪmənt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tenement.wav Forms: tenements [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English tenement, from Anglo-Norman tenement (“holding”), from Old French tenement, from Medieval Latin tenimentum, from Latin teneō (“hold”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ten-}}, {{inh|en|enm|tenement}} Middle English tenement, {{der|en|xno|tenement|t=holding}} Anglo-Norman tenement (“holding”), {{der|en|fro|tenement}} Old French tenement, {{der|en|ML.|tenimentum}} Medieval Latin tenimentum, {{der|en|la|teneō|t=hold}} Latin teneō (“hold”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} tenement (plural tenements)
  1. A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one. Synonyms (building): tenement house, apartment building Translations (a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one): συνοικία (sunoikía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), huurkazerne [feminine] (Dutch), flatgebouw [neuter] (Dutch), vuokra-asunto (Finnish), vuokratalo (Finnish), appartement [masculine] (French), logement [masculine] (French), Mietskaserne [feminine] (German), Wohnungsblock [masculine] (German), bérház (Hungarian), tionontán [masculine] (Irish), casamento [masculine] (Italian), condominio [masculine] (Italian), case popolari [feminine, plural] (Italian), casermone [masculine] (Italian), insula [feminine] (Latin), kamienica czynszowa [feminine] (Polish), czynszówka [feminine] (Polish), cortiço [masculine] (Portuguese), casa de vecindad [feminine] (Spanish), vecindad [feminine] (Spanish), bloque de viviendas [masculine] (Spanish), inquilinato (Spanish), solar [Peru, masculine] (Spanish), conventillo [masculine] (Spanish)
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  2. (law) Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned. Categories (topical): Law Translations (any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned): verpachting (Dutch), Mietshaus (German), bérlet (Hungarian), bérlemény (Hungarian), bérlakás (Hungarian), tionóntán [masculine] (Irish), арендованное иму́щество (arendovannoje imúščestvo) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-tenement-en-noun-Qj0X-9GI Categories (other): Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 46 45 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 47 46 7 Topics: law Disambiguation of 'any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned': 2 97 0
  3. (figurative) A dwelling; abode; habitation. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-tenement-en-noun-VyZxDC11
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: servient tenement, tenemental Related terms: rooming house

Inflected forms

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      "args": {
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        "2": "xno",
        "3": "tenement",
        "t": "holding"
      },
      "expansion": "Anglo-Norman tenement (“holding”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "tenement"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French tenement",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "tenimentum"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin tenimentum",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "teneō",
        "t": "hold"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin teneō (“hold”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English tenement, from Anglo-Norman tenement (“holding”), from Old French tenement, from Medieval Latin tenimentum, from Latin teneō (“hold”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tenements",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "rooming house"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "building",
          "building"
        ],
        [
          "rented",
          "rented"
        ],
        [
          "multiple",
          "multiple"
        ],
        [
          "tenant",
          "tenant"
        ],
        [
          "low-rent",
          "low-rent"
        ],
        [
          "run-down",
          "run-down"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The island of Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "property",
          "property"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:",
          "text": "Where she came from no man could tell. There were some said she was no woman, but a ghost haunting some mortal tenement.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A dwelling; abode; habitation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dwelling",
          "dwelling"
        ],
        [
          "abode",
          "abode"
        ],
        [
          "habitation",
          "habitation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) A dwelling; abode; habitation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɛnɪmənt/"
    },
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "building",
      "word": "tenement house"
    },
    {
      "sense": "building",
      "word": "apartment building"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "huurkazerne"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "flatgebouw"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "word": "vuokra-asunto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "word": "vuokratalo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "appartement"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "logement"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Mietskaserne"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Wohnungsblock"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "sunoikía",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "συνοικία"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "word": "bérház"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tionontán"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "casamento"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "condominio"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "case popolari"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "casermone"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "insula"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kamienica czynszowa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "czynszówka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cortiço"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "casa de vecindad"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vecindad"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bloque de viviendas"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "word": "inquilinato"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "Peru",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "solar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "conventillo"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned",
      "word": "verpachting"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned",
      "word": "Mietshaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned",
      "word": "bérlet"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned",
      "word": "bérlemény"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned",
      "word": "bérlakás"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tionóntán"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "arendovannoje imúščestvo",
      "sense": "any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "арендованное иму́щество"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "tenement"
  ],
  "word": "tenement"
}

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