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    [Noun]  | "ten*e*ment" | \ ˈte-nə-mənt \


    1: tenement house

    2: apartment, flat

    3: a house used as a dwelling : residence

    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English, "the holding of property, the property so held, building, dwelling," borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Medieval Latin tenementum, tenimentum, teneamentum, from Latin tenēre "to hold, occupy, possess" + -mentum {see: |-ment|-ment} {mat|tenant:1|};

    [Noun]  | "tenements" 


    1: a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place;


      * e.g., " ... an exhibit of pictures showing the tenements of the New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen during the 1920s "



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    [Noun]  | "tenement" 


    1: a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place;


      * e.g., " ... an exhibit of pictures showing the tenements of the New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen during the 1920s "



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     [ "tenement halls" ]

    1: Known for its lyric out of Simon and Garfunkel's: The sounds of silence, "tenement halls" are rooms or sets of separate residences in housing complexes and apartments. Specifically rundown, overcrowded and low income apartments.

      * e.g.,  ... "And the signs said 

     [ "tenement yard" ]

    1: Jamaican slang for a housing area that is generally poor or undeveloped

      * e.g.,  ... shanty towns in Jamaica or Jamaican ghetto reggae lyrics "Dreadlocks can't live in a tenement yard!" from Jamaican Reggae artist Jacob Miller 

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