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

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of tenement

My mother’s parents grew up in the same tenement building in Red Hook, Brooklyn, during the Great Depression, in the kind of poverty that might have been depicted by a Puerto Rican Charles Dickens. —Xochitl Gonzalez, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2024

Upon being granted probationary asylum, finding tenement housing, and teaming with a case worker named Mark (Smith), the couple’s fortune worsens further with an apparently evil force living in their home. —Will Harris, EW.com, 30 July 2024

Milk’s contemporary image-making began in mid-nineteenth century New York City, where a growing population crowded into tenements plagued by malnourishment and disease. —Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024

Police and volunteers — including some of Joey’s school chums — searched every cellar, vacant tenement, alleyway, junkyard, and loft for nearly 80 blocks. —Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2024