Synonyms of tenement

tenement

noun

ˈte-nə-mənt 

as in apartment

a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place

an exhibit of pictures showing the tenements of the New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen during the 1920s

Synonyms & Similar Words

• apartment
• penthouse
• lodgings
• condominium
• flat
• suite
• digs
• studio
• diggings
• bedsit
• condo
• duplex
• saloon
• floor-through
• walk-up
• efficiency
• bed-sitter
• triplex
• wing
• maisonette
• cohousing
• duplex apartment
• flatlet
• railroad flat
• salon
• efficiency apartment
• garden apartment
• studio apartment
• bed-sitting-room
• tenement house
• gallery
• granny flat
• apartment building
• apartment house

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tenement

When Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, first showed up alongside other Habitat volunteers at a decrepit tenement on New York’s Lower East Side in 1984, the cultural zeitgeist did a double take. —Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024

Born to Jewish immigrants in a Lower East Side tenement, Aarons began his career as a combat photographer for the United States Military during World War II. —Elise Taylor, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024

Meanwhile Tateh and his daughter work their way through the tenements toward better lives, encountering the radical Emma Goldman (Shaina Taub, who’s come over from Suffs and reveals her own musical’s debt to Ragtime’s genre in the process) and eventually intersecting with everyone else. —Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024

People were running toward my grandparents’ tenement. —Al Pacino, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024