Synonyms of tenement

tenement

noun

ˈte-nə-mənt 

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• apartment
• penthouse
• lodgings
• condominium
• flat
• suite
• digs
• studio
• diggings
• bedsit
• condo
• duplex
• saloon
• floor-through
• walk-up
• efficiency
• bed-sitter
• triplex
• wing
• maisonette
• cohousing
• duplex apartment
• flatlet
• railroad flat
• salon
• efficiency apartment
• garden apartment
• studio apartment
• bed-sitting-room
• tenement house
• gallery
• granny flat
• apartment building
• apartment house

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tenement

But in 1901, a progressive government passed laws that set minimum size requirements for tenements and required adequate lighting, ventilation and indoor bathrooms. —Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025

Many readers addressed their fan letters not to the author, Betty Smith, but to her main character, Francie Nolan, a dirt-poor tenement child with big dreams. —Perri Klass, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024

Immigrant Irish, Italians, Greeks, Russians, Poles, Albanians, Lebanese, Lithuanians, Jews and Blacks all lived together in relative harmony in brick tenement buildings, not unlike the structures today on the Cambridge Street side of Beacon Hill. —Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 20 Feb. 2025

Lawmakers restricted livestock in tenements and ordered manure to be cleaned up from yards and vacant lots. —Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 30 Jan. 2025