What is another word for tenements?

Pronunciation: [tˈɛnəmənts] (IPA)

Tenements, also known as apartments, flats, units, or rental units, are shared living spaces where individual rooms or suites are rented out to tenants. These synonyms for tenements vary in their connotations, with apartments and rental units being more modern terms, while flats and units tend to be used in British English. Other synonyms include boarding houses, dormitories, rooming houses, and townhouses. Rooming houses and boarding houses refer to houses that are divided into individual rooms, while dormitories typically refer to housing for students at a school or university. Townhouses often refer to multi-level, attached homes that are owned rather than rented.

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What are the hypernyms for Tenements?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    housing, residential building, rental property, Low Income Housing, apartment living, multi-residential dwellings.

Usage examples for Tenements

For centuries they had destroyed old ruined tenements, and Bone had shown them to be the only kind that ought to be allowed.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke
The person who knows only the Italian of the tenements has little sympathy for him, in spite of the fact that many of this race have proved themselves to be quiet, sober, and useful citizens.
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews
We have come to regard all mortal bodies as the tenements of immortal souls.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer

Famous quotes with Tenements

  • When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.
    Cy Coleman
  • It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.
    Alice Hamilton
  • The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
    Paul Simon
  • ‘Writers don’t so much write about their own lives as create them, Barthes said; it’s an oddly modern idea. Bengalis, similarly, had to make their own history. They did it in houses, tenements, and in neighbourhoods connected by stifling alleys that are no wider than a small room ... And this is why I feel, even now, that the most revealing places in Calcutta are not the museums or the great monuments ... but the houses and lanes in which people live.’
    Amit Chaudhuri
  • Manhattan is not altogether felicitous for fiction. It is not a city of memory, not a family city, not the capital of America so much as the iconic capital of this century. It is grand and grandiose with its two rivers acting as a border to contain the restless. Its skyscrapers and bleak, rotting tenements are a gift for photographic consumption, but for the fictional imagination the city's inchoate density is a special challenge.
    Elizabeth Hardwick

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