any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned
a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one
An apartment building, block of flats or tenement is a multi-unit dwelling made up of several (generally four or more) apartments (US) or flats (UK). Where the building is a high-rise construction, it is termed a tower block in the UK and elsewhere. The term apartment building is used regardless of height in the US
Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; called also free or frank tenements
A tenement is one of the flats in a tenement. a large building divided into apartments, especially in the poorer areas of a city tenement building/house/block (from tenementum, from tenere; TENOR)
A tenement is a large, old building which is divided into a number of individual flats. elegant 19th century tenement buildings
That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee
in property law, any form of permanent property, such as land, dwelling, shop etc
Property that could be subject to tenure under English land law; usually land, buildings or apartments The word is rarely used nowadays except to refer to dominant or servient tenements when qualifying easements
A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented