A large apartment building that was usually overcrowded and dirty.
A tenement is usually a reference to a poor part of a city, where housing is intensive and not very good, in the UK it often referred to blocks of flats, built to house people after WW2 and now considered bad living accommodation
In many areas the term tenement is used informally to mean a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, or unit within the same, especially in an economically depressed section of a large city.
However, tenement is an old common law term with several meanings depending on the jurisdiction and the situation. The following are examples of the various different meanings:
Apartment buildings that were in poor condition (apex)
A large apartment building that was usually overcroweded and dirty.
An apartment building, usually in poor condition
a tenemant is a poorly buiding
Cooperatives are not associated with tenement living.
The old tenement building was in need of repair and maintenance, with several apartments showing signs of decay and neglect.
The Tenement Year was created in 1988-03.
Tenement is a noun, as in an apartment or a room rented by a tenant
Additional information regarding the Tenement museum located in New York, can be found on the Tenement's website. Wikipedia also has a general write up regarding the Tenement museum.
The old tenement building was crowded with small apartments, each occupied by multiple families struggling to make ends meet.
Tenement Symphony was created on 1991-10-04.
Acrobatic Tenement was created on 1996-08-18.
Branchville Railroad Tenement was created in 1853.
Ashland Mill Tenement was created in 1855.
Freedom of speech is a central and sacred tenet of any democracy
The duration of The Record of a Tenement Gentleman is 1.2 hours.