tenements

noun

plural of tenement
as in apartments
a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place an exhibit of pictures showing the tenements of the New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen during the 1920s

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Recent Examples of tenements Parks and gardens are woven into every neighborhood; check out the shocking-pink Portland Street micro park spliced between tenements in Yau Ma Tei; Victoria Park in Causeway Bay; and Kowloon Park, which has a lake populated by real-life flamingos. — Lee Cobaj, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2026 Jet fuel burns as hot as kerosene — twice as hot as wood — and firefighters battle kerosene fires every day in the basements of tenements all over the city. — Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026 No one wants to go back to the days of tenements and apartments with insufficient ventilation or light. — Michael Schill, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026 The novel begins with a deadly fire that destroys two tenements. — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026 German Jews—my people—were far less numerous, most of them came to the United States earlier, and their typical first occupation was peddling, which entailed wandering through non-Jewish areas, not living in tenements. — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026 The tenements featured in Marty Supreme of course replicated those from the 1950s. — India Roby, Architectural Digest, 27 Feb. 2026 More than half a million residents live in NYCHA development plagued by chronic mold, broken elevators, and heating failures; others reside in subpar tenements run by crooked landlords. — Darius Jones, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026 There’s a row of five-story buildings off Fifth Avenue in Park Slope that seem to fit the neighborhood standard for prewar, working-class tenements — a central staircase divvying up ten dark railroad apartments. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tenements
  1. apartments
  2. penthouses
Noun
  • Hebron municipal officials said families had been displaced from nearly 500 apartments in Deir Bahha and surrounding neighborhoods.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Outrage in Israel Hebron municipal officials said families had been displaced from nearly 500 apartments in Deir Bahha and surrounding neighborhoods.
    — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of apartments
Noun
  • Rooms Las Alcobas offers a moody-luxe atmosphere with a touch of Mexican influence throughout its 35 surprisingly spacious suites and three penthouses, where dark rosewood and fresh, fragile orchids take center stage.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026
  • South Florida luxury often means oceanfront mansions, private docks and high-rise penthouses.
    — Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of penthouses

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