Synonyms for TENEMENT
ˈtɛn ə məntten·e·ment

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. tenementnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   house

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.3 / 6 votes

1. tenement, tenement housenoun

   a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards

   Synonyms:
   tenement, tenement house

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1. • Apartment Building

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. tenementnoun

   Synonyms:
   house, dwelling, habitation, domicile

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "tenement":

   tang

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1. Scott C. Holstad:

   We are the people in cheap hotels and tenement housing walking down side alleys talking to ourselves. We are the people the pushers the whores the crackheads the gunrunners the bangers the pimps the homeless the outlaws the crippled the freaks the damned. Drink to us my friends for we are the forgotten.

2. Megan Smolenyak:

   She watched half of them go to the grave by the age of 3, if you look at their death certificates, it’s a variety of causes, but they all track back to poverty. They all tie to life in tenement slums.