tenement house

1. 1.

   a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards

   Synonymstenement

   Broaderapartment building

Questions about tenement house

What does tenement house mean?

tenement house means "a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards".

What is another word for tenement house?

Close synonyms include tenement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tenement house a common word?

tenement house 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.