tenement

  • 51tenement — ten•e•ment [[t]ˈtɛn ə mənt[/t]] n. 1) Also called ten′ement house . a run down and often overcrowded apartment house, esp. in a poor section of a large city 2) law Law. law property of a permanent or fixed nature, whether corporeal or incorporeal …

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  • 52tenement — tenemen m. domaine agricole; ensemble de terres d un seul tenant. « Ah ! cò s un tenemen di plus fort de la Crau ! » F. Mistral …

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  • 53tenement — see TENANT …

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  • 54tenement house — noun Date: 1858 apartment building; especially one meeting minimum standards of sanitation, safety, and comfort and usually located in a city …

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  • 55tenement district — Synonyms and related words: Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, barrio, black ghetto, blighted area, business district, central city, city center, core, downtown, ghetto, greenbelt, inner… …

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  • 56tenement house — poorly maintained apartment building in a low rent area …

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  • 57tenement of clay — Mortal body …

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  • 58tenement house — /ˈtɛnəmənt haʊs/ (say tenuhmuhnt hows) noun a house divided into flats, especially one in the poorer, crowded parts of a large city …

  • 59Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site — Infobox protected area | name = Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site iucn category = V caption = locator x = 254 locator y = 60 location = New York, New York, USA nearest city = New York, NY lat degrees = 40 | lat minutes = 43 | lat… …

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  • 60Old Law Tenement — Old Law Tenements are tenements built in New York City after the Tenement House Act of 1879 and before the New York State Tenement House Act of 1901. The 1879 law required that every inhabitable room have a window opening to plain air, a… …

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