tenement
/ˈtɛnəm(ə)nt
/noun
1(Especially in Scotland or the US) a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of flats.The flat was part of a refurbished block of tenements that belonged to a housing co-operative....
- Rents were horrendous for urban dwellers, with entire families doubling up in crowded single room tenements.
- Various diseases all too often swept through entire city blocks of tenements.
1.1 (also tenement house) A house divided into and let as separate residences.The flat was on the first floor of a tenement block, and had a lovely front room....
- It was a basement flat in an Edinburgh tenement, with something of a history.
- He spent his working life designing commercial premises, tenements and mansion houses.
2A piece of land held by an owner.Their lands and tenements should be seized into the king's hands.
2.1 Law Any kind of permanent property, e.g. lands or rents, held from a superior.The roadway is being used for obtaining access and egress to and from land outside the dominant tenement....
- He holds the tenement by a rent due to the maker of the recognizance.
- The grantor intends to reserve rights over the tenement granted.
Origin
Middle English (in the sense 'tenure, property held by tenure'): via Old French from medieval Latin tenementum, from tenere 'to hold'.
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