Tenement House (Noun)
Meaning
A run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The once-grand building had devolved into a dilapidated tenement house, its walls cracked and paint peeling.
- As she walked up the creaky stairs, the smell of mold and decay filled her nostrils, a constant reminder of the neglect that plagued the tenement house.
- City inspectors had been threatening to condemn the tenement house for years, but somehow it remained standing, a testament to bureaucratic inefficiency.
- The family of four was forced to live in a cramped, dingy apartment within the tenement house, struggling to make ends meet.
- Despite the squalid conditions, the tenement house remained home to dozens of low-income families, who had nowhere else to turn.