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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While the disease is still a leading killer globally, U.S. death rates from tuberculosis fell as authorities enacted public health and welfare reforms, such as adopting child labor laws and extending greater oversight to overcrowded tenements and factories.
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Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2020
Rogers was born in a tenement on Second Street in 1911, where Riverfront Stadium was later constructed.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 18 Sep. 2024
My mother’s parents grew up in the same tenement building in Red Hook, Brooklyn, during the Great Depression, in the kind of poverty that might have been depicted by a Puerto Rican Charles Dickens.
—Xochitl Gonzalez, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2024
Upon being granted probationary asylum, finding tenement housing, and teaming with a case worker named Mark (Smith), the couple’s fortune worsens further with an apparently evil force living in their home.
—Will Harris, EW.com, 30 July 2024
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Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2020
Rogers was born in a tenement on Second Street in 1911, where Riverfront Stadium was later constructed.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 18 Sep. 2024
My mother’s parents grew up in the same tenement building in Red Hook, Brooklyn, during the Great Depression, in the kind of poverty that might have been depicted by a Puerto Rican Charles Dickens.
—Xochitl Gonzalez, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2024
Upon being granted probationary asylum, finding tenement housing, and teaming with a case worker named Mark (Smith), the couple’s fortune worsens further with an apparently evil force living in their home.
—Will Harris, EW.com, 30 July 2024
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“Tenement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenement. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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