as in apartment
a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place
an exhibit of pictures showing the tenements of the New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen during the 1920s
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In January 1966, as further escalation, the Kings moved into a $90-a-month North Lawndale tenement on Hamlin.
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Erik Wallenberg, Chicago Tribune, 19 Jan. 2025
On Photography Around the World and Back Again From tenement life to royal weddings to war’s front lines, Bert Hardy captured it all.
—airmail.news, 24 Feb. 2024
When Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, first showed up alongside other Habitat volunteers at a decrepit tenement on New York’s Lower East Side in 1984, the cultural zeitgeist did a double take.
—Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
Born to Jewish immigrants in a Lower East Side tenement, Aarons began his career as a combat photographer for the United States Military during World War II.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
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Erik Wallenberg, Chicago Tribune, 19 Jan. 2025
On Photography Around the World and Back Again From tenement life to royal weddings to war’s front lines, Bert Hardy captured it all.
—airmail.news, 24 Feb. 2024
When Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, first showed up alongside other Habitat volunteers at a decrepit tenement on New York’s Lower East Side in 1984, the cultural zeitgeist did a double take.
—Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
Born to Jewish immigrants in a Lower East Side tenement, Aarons began his career as a combat photographer for the United States Military during World War II.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Tenement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenement. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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