Tenement (Noun)
Meaning
A run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The city's housing authority struggled to maintain the crumbling tenement on 5th Street, where leaky pipes and broken elevators were a constant problem.
- After years of neglect, the once-grand tenement on Elm Street had become a shadow of its former self, with peeling paint and trash-filled hallways.
- The family of four was forced to live in a cramped, rundown tenement with no air conditioning and a perpetual smell of mildew.
- As she walked up the creaky stairs of the old tenement, Sarah couldn't help but feel a sense of unease at the eerie silence and flickering fluorescent lights.
- The city's plan to renovate the dilapidated tenement on Main Street was met with skepticism by residents, who had heard similar promises before.