Tenement is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TENEMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an apartment house
• (especially in Scotland or the US) a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of flats.
• a house divided into and let as separate residences.
• a piece of land held by an owner.
• any kind of permanent property, e.g. lands or rents, held from a superior.
• (esp in Scotland or the US) building divided into several flats
• That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
• Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements.
• A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.
• Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.
• a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards

Words related to TENEMENT

tenemental12 tenements11

Words that contain TENEMENT

tenements11 tenemental12 tenemented13 contenement15 tenementary16 contenements16

How to use TENEMENT in a sentence

• The Association had erected two long buildings, one for a tenement house and the other for a dining hall.
• They lived on the sixth floor in a tenement house crammed with tenants of every degree of squalor.
• She had been standing at the door of their tumbledown tenement, looking for her daughter, and was surprised to see her bringing a strange child with her.
• But Grace, herself, could not entirely shake off the ties of kindred and human love so long as her spirit continued in its earthly tenement.
• Down in the streets the tenement children are swarming in the sunny spots, and dancing to the hand-organs.
• The old Indian heartily wished that a separate tenement might be provided for each of these two souls, that they might fight out their quarrel in the ordinary way.
• While Larry was getting a start in the newspaper work the Dexter family had lived in the same tenement with the Jacksons, and they had become firm friends.
• It may be that this smile was the reflection of the joy that thrilled his soul as he stepped out of his broken tenement of clay into the presence and light of his Redeemer.
• First, a picture of the tenement with the number of deaths and cases underneath.
• The islanders, while employed in erecting this tenement, reminded me of a colony of beavers at work.
• The tenement districts baffle description, yet nothing is more difficult than to get their miserable occupants to leave their fetid and squalid surroundings for the country.
• Settlement workers and students of social questions are actually living in the tenement and slum sections, so as to know by experience and not hearsay.
• The section of the city embraced in the wards we have named is filled with a class of buildings called tenement houses.
• They live in the poorer class of tenement houses, and are surrounded with discomfort of every kind.
• There, at last! The light was gone, the window in darkness, and it was safe for her to return to the tenement across the way.
• He turned into the dirty, narrow alley in which he lived, opened the door of a tenement house, and, running quickly up a flight of stairs, entered Mrs.
• Flowers that are gray and black blossom on the ledges of tenement windows giving on bare walls.
• With tears on her black cheeks, Arabella followed her brother back to the tenement.
• Outside the tenement stood the police patrol wagon.
• The town has not a dozen in all, and not one of that stature is an apartment or tenement house.
• Like Peabody, she has transformed some of the most degraded portions of London by her improved tenement houses for the poor.
• The dance hall occupied a big, low-ceiled basement room in a building which was a combination of saloon and tenement house.
• One of these is the tenement sweat shop, where women combine, or try to combine, manufacturing and housekeeping.
• Those dealing with immigrant girls are sometimes filthy rooms in some rear tenement, reached through a saloon or a barber shop facing the street.
• There will be no slums, no sweat shops, no sad women and children toiling in tenement rooms.
• He had easily found the tenement in the Subura where Pratinas lodged, but to learn anything there that would be useful was a far more difficult affair.
• Agias had been given lodgings by Drusus in a tenement house, owned by the latter, in the Subura.
• Asiatic cholera was striding over Europe, and the tenement house of America was a resting place for it here.
• I had one more name, and climbed to find its owner in a tenement flat.
• We all read about tenement houses, and we all feel sorry that many of the houses for the poor to live in are not as comfortably built as they might be.

Similar words containing TENEM without suffix ent

tenements11 tenemental12 tenemented13 contenement15 tenementary16 contenements16

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