tenement: Meaning and Definition of

ten•e•ment

1. Also calleda run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, esp. in a poor section of a large city.
1. any species of permanent property, as lands, houses, rents, an office, or a franchise, that may be held of another.
2. tenements,freehold interests in things immovable considered as subjects of property.
3. an apartment or room rented by a tenant.
4. any abode or habitation.