tenement
/ˈtɛnɪmənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A dwelling; abode; habitation.
Example Sentences
- "He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements."
- "The island of Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark."
- "Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?"
- "Where she came from no man could tell. There were some said she was no woman, but a ghost haunting some mortal tenement."
Etymology
From Middle English tenement, from Anglo-Norman tenement (“holding”), from Old French tenement, from Medieval Latin tenimentum, from Latin teneō (“hold”).