A tenement is a run down apartment building. The tenements in Old New York were barely safe enough to live in fire hazards, no air circulation, and no bathrooms, either.
That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
Noun
a rundown apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
n.
That which is held of another by service; property which
one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or
pecuniary service; fief; fee.
n.
Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as
to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an
advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; --
called also free / frank tenements.
n.
A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an
apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often,
a house erected to be rented.
n.
Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.
Tenement
The thing held is a tenement, the possessor of it a "tenant," and the manner of possession is called "tenure."3.
Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?
That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
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