TENEMENT HOUSE

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenement house mean? 

• TENEMENT HOUSE (noun)
  The noun TENEMENT HOUSE has 1 sense:

1. a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards

  Familiarity information: TENEMENT HOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENEMENT HOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

tenement; tenement house

Hypernyms ("tenement house" is a kind of...):

apartment building; apartment house (a building that is divided into apartments)

 Context examples 

Mr. Gregson and I ran him to ground in that big tenement house, and there’s only one door, so he can’t slip us.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He stood in front of a gloomy tenement house.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)