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Definition: Tenement |
TenementNoun1. A rundown apartment house barely meeting minimal standards. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tenement" was first used: sometime around 1303. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang in 1811 | HOUSE, or TENEMENT, TO LET. A widow's weeds; also an atchievement marking the death of a husband, set up on the outside of a mansion: both supposed to indicate that the dolorous widow wants a male comforter. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: TenementSynonym: tenement house (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Tenement, messuage, farm, farmhouse, grange, hacienda, toft. |
House, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in urbe, folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court, manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace; kiosk, bungalow; casa, country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement house; temple. | |
Corpse | Noun: corpse, corse, carcass, cadaver, bones, skeleton, dry bones; defunct, relics, reliquiae, remains, mortal remains, dust, ashes, earth, clay; mummy; carrion; food for worms, food for fishes; tenement of clay this mortal coil. |
Receptacle | Chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tenement |
| English words defined with "tenement": Contenement ♦ Dominant estate ♦ pervasiveness ♦ Rack-rent ♦ Servient tenement, Subtenant ♦ tenement district, tenement house, Tenemental, To make one's self at home. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tenement": Peppercorn Rent ♦ Udal Tenure ♦ Vauxhall. (references) |
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Lyrics | And tenement halls ("Sounds of Silence"; performing artist: Simon & Garfunkel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Vitaphone No. 1029: A Tenement Tangle (1930) The Samaritan of Coogan's Tenement (1912) Tenement (1985) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Little Tenement Toilers.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Nutrition - tenement mother and child in kitchen].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Sophy and the baby in the tenement.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rear view of a tenement building, San Juan, Porto Rico.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A tenement building on the Lower East Side.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Exterior of tenement house, New York City.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Interior of tenement house, New York City.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Children in a tenement district in Brockton, Massachusetts.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The family of John Kelly who works in the Navy yard in south Boston. Their present tenement in Quincy is completely inadequate. They have been unable to move because every real estate agent has turned him down, claiming there was no reason why they should.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Mass.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | No one shall be distrained for performance of greater service for a knight's fee, or for any other free tenement, than is due therefrom. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At the period referred to, the tenement No. |
Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden | A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | His brain was simmering and bubbling within the cracking tenement of the skull. |
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| "Tenement" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.39% of the time. "Tenement" is used about 163 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.39% | 162 | 24,580 |
| Noun (common) | 0.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 163 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tenement": Dominant tenement ♦ Servient tenement ♦ tenement district ♦ tenement house ♦ tenement of clay this mortal coil. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tenement": tenement-lined. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
museum tenement | 31 |
tenement | 23 |
1800s home in late tenement | 5 |
housing tenement | 4 |
house tenement | 3 |
picture tenement | 3 |
east lower side tenement | 3 |
museum nyc tenement | 3 |
life tenement | 3 |
dumbell tenement | 2 |
restaurant tenement | 2 |
dumbbell tenement | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tenement"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | banesë shumëkatshe (tenement house), banesë që merret me qira, apartament që merret me qira. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مبنى مشتمل على عدة شقق, شقة (apartment, flat, maisonette, mansion, suite), دار شقة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | квартира (accommodation, bed, diggings, digs, housing, lodgement, lodgings, lodgment, pad, place, quarterage, quarters, rooms), недвижимо имущество (real estate), наета земя и др. имущество, жилищен дом с евтини квартири (tenement house), апартамент (apartment, flat, suite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 住宅 (residence), 廉价公". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nemovitost (property, real estate, realty), nájem (charter, copyhold, hire, lease, tenancy), èinžovní dùm (apartment house, tenement house), èinžák (tenement house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lejebolig (rented accommodation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | huurwoning (rented accommodation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ملک استیجاری , مستغلات , اپارتمان (Apartment, Chamber, Flat, Partition, Suite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vuokrakiinteistö (leased property, leasehold house, rental building, tenement house), servienssi (servient land, servient tenement), palveleva kiinteistö (servient land, servient tenement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | maison, logement locatif, logement, immeuble, appartement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Mietshaus (apartment house), Wohnung (abode, accommodation, apartment, apartmentUS, dwelling, flat, habitation, lodging, place, property, residence), Wohnhaus (abode, accommodation, dwelling, dwelling house, farmer's house, farmhouse, residence, residential building, residential house), mietwohnung (apartment, flat, lodging, rented accommodation, rented apartment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φτηνό σπίτι, φθηνό οίκημα, ενοικιαζόμενη κατοικία (rented accommodation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אחוז" (estate, farm, manor), "ירת שכון, "יר" (apartment, dwelling, flat), בית "ירות (apartment house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bérlemény (lodging, rental). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | caseggiato (block of buildings, block of flats, block of houses, city block, group of houses, island site, residential block), casa in affitto, appartamento (abode, accommodation, apartment, departure, dwelling, flat, lodging, residence, suite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 長家 (tenement or row house), 長屋 (tenement or row house), 裏長屋 (rear tenement), 裏店 (house in an alley, rear tenement, slums), 裏屋 (alley house, rear tenement, slum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ながや (tenement or row house), うらながや (rear tenement), うらや (alley house, rear tenement, slum), うら な (house in an alley, rear tenement, slums). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 보 물. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | chenmynt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enementtay prazo foreiro, habitação para arrendamento (rented accommodation), habitação arrendada (rented accommodation), casa de habitação, bens imóveis (chattel, immovable property, property, real estate, realty), arrendamento (hire, holding, lease, leasehold, least, letting, letting on lease, rent, renting, tenancy, tenantry), apartamento (apartment, departure, flat, gunshot, room, suite). (various references) moşie arendatã (tenancy), locuinţã închiriatã, locuinţã (abode, accommodations, apartment, digging, dwelling, home, homestead, house, housing, inhabitation, living, Lodge, lodging, lodgment, place, residence, rooms, whereabouts), casã închiriatã (tenancy). (various references) арендуемое помещение, арендуемое имущество. (various references) oronula stambena zgrada (tenement house). (various references) vivienda de alquiler (rented accommodation), vivienda (apartment, case, dwelling, dwellings, flat, frame, housing, living quarter), casa de pisos (apartment building, apartment complex, apartment house). (various references) hyrd bostad, arrendegård (farm, rented farm). (various references) บ้านพักอาศัย, อสังหาริมทรัพย์ (land), ห้องที่แบ่งให้เช่าพัก. (various references) mülk (asset, condo, demesne, domain, estate, freehold, hereditament, landed property, possession, possessions, premises, property), kiralık yer, kiralık ev (apartment for rent, apartment to rent, house for rent, house to let, lodging). (various references) орендоване майно, орендоване приміщення. (various references) nh tập thể, nh ở (domicile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tenere. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | tenementum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tenement": tenements. (additional references) | |
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"Tenement" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tenament, tenemeent, tenemented, tenment, tiennent, tindemans, tonement, Trenaman, Treneman. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tenement" (pronounced te"numunt) |
| 6 | -n u m u n t | accompaniment, ornament, tournament. |
| 5 | -u m u n t | adamant, argument, armament, complement, condiment, detriment, disarmament, element, excrement, experiment, filament, impediment, implement, increment, instrument, integument, ligament, orpiment, parliament, predicament, rearmament, regiment, rudiment, sacrament, sediment, sentiment, supplement, temperament, testament, vehement. |
| 4 | -m u n t | abandonment, abatement, accomplishment, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adjournment, adjustment, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, amendment, amusement, announcement, annulment, antigovernment, apartment, appeasement, appointment, apportionment, arraignment, arrangement, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, bemusement, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, claimant, Clement, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, comportment, concealment, confinement, consignment, containment, contentment, copayment, curtailment, debarment, debasement, deferment, department, deployment, deportment, derailment, detachment, determent, development, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, displacement, divestment, dormant, easement, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, excitement, extinguishment, figment, formant, fragment, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, government, harassment, impairment, impeachment, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, incitement, inclement, indictment, inducement, informant, infotainment, infringement, installment, internment, intersegment, investment, involvement, judgement, judgment, maltreatment, management, measurement, micromanagement, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, movement, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nourishment, ointment, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, parchment, pavement, payment, pigment, placement, postponement, postretirement, prejudgment, prepayment, presentment, procurement, pronouncement, punishment, puzzlement, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recruitment, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refurbishment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, repayment, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, restatement, retirement, retrenchment, segment, settlement, shipment, statement, treatment, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, wonderment. |
| 3 | -u n t | aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accountant, adherent, adjacent, adjutant, adolescent, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, ambient, ambivalent, ancient, antecedent, antidepressant, antioxidant, apparent, applicant, ardent, argent, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assistant, astringent, attendant, belligerent, beneficent, benevolent, blatant, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, clairvoyant, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, compliant, component, concomitant, concurrent, confident, confluent, consequent, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, contaminant, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, dependent, depressant, descendant, descendent, despondent, detergent, determinant, deterrent, deviant, different, diligent, discordant, disinfectant, disobedient, dispersant, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, docent, dominant, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, elephant, eloquent, emergent, emigrant, eminent, entrant, equivalent, errant, esculent, evanescent, evident, excellent, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, exponent, extant, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, gallant, giant, grandiloquent, grandparent, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impatient, impertinent, important, impotent, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, incumbent, indecent, independent, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, indulgent, inefficient, infant, infrequent, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, instant, insufficient, insurgent, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, merchant, migrant, militant, miscreant, monovalent, mordant, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nonresident, nonviolent, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, outpatient, overconfident, oxidant, pageant, parent, participant, patent, patient, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, piquant, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prescient, present, prevalent, proficient, prominent, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, pursuant, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, reagent, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recurrent, redundant, refrigerant, Regent, registrant, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repellent, repentant, repugnant, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, reverent, rodent, ruminant, salient, seafront, sealant, semipermanent, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, tenant, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-m-n-n-t-t" | |
-1 letter: entente. | |
-3 letters: tenet. | |
-4 letters: meet, mete, neem, nene, nett, teem, teen, tent. | |
-5 letters: eme, men, met, nee, net, tee, ten, tet. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-m-n-n-t-t" | |
+1 letter: tenements. | |
+2 letters: denotement, enticement, lentamente, resentment. | |
+3 letters: denotements, enticements, entitlement, entreatment, presentment, reenactment, resentments. | |
+4 letters: dethronement, entanglement, enthronement, entitlements, entrancement, entreatments, entrenchment, estrangement, intersegment, presentiment, presentments, reenactments, reenlistment, reinvestment, ressentiment, retrenchment, unsettlement. | |
+5 letters: dethronements, enlightenment, entanglements, entertainment, enthronements, entrancements, entrenchments, estrangements, indeterminate, interlacement, intermittence, intersegments, presentiments, reenlistments, reinstatement, reinvestments, ressentiments, retrenchments, unsettlements. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6E 65 6D 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . -. . -- . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101110 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e n e m e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006E 0065 006D 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5471807179718086 |
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