- tenement⇄expr. tenements, (Law.) anything permanent that one person may hold of another, such as land, buildings, franchises, or rents.
Ex. The Sheriffs of London [in] those days might lawfully enter into the ... tenements that the Abbot had within Middlese - tenement⇄tenement, noun.
1. a building divided into sets of rooms occupied by separate families, especially such a building in a poor section of a city.
Ex. the shabby tenements along the railroad tracks.
2. any house or building to live in; dwe