tenement district

1. 1.

   a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses

   Broaderresidential district

Questions about tenement district

What does tenement district mean?

tenement district means "a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses".

Is tenement district a common word?

tenement district is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.