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/ˈtɛnɪmənt/ · noun
A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one..
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.
Use tenement when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tenement means A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one..
Common synonyms include tenement house, apartment building.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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