English Dictionary

tenement

/ˈtɛnɪmənt/

noun

A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one. / (law) Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.

The old tenement building was home to many families.

意味（1）

A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.

He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements.

意味（2）

(law) Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.

The island of Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark.

意味（3）

(figuratively) Dwelling; abode; habitation.

, Book III

, Book III Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?