Synonyms for
Tenement
Definition
A multi-unit apartment building, usually in a poor or crowded part of a city.
Synonyms & similar words
Example sentences
- The tenement building was very old and run-down.
- Many immigrants lived in tenement buildings when they first came to America.
- The city government passed a law to improve the living conditions in tenement buildings.
- The landlord was fined for not maintaining the tenement building properly.
- The tenement building was demolished to make way for a new development.
Quotes
I was born in a tenement house in Elizabeth, New Jersey... it was not a ghetto; it was not a slum. It was a typical Jewish-American community.
The tenement is the laboratory of social progress.
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.