tenement
/ˈtɛnɪmənt/ noun C2- A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
- Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned. · The island of Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark.
- A dwelling; abode; habitation.
Plural tenements
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In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, finally, maritime London, till we came to a riverside city of a hundred thousand souls, where the tenement houses swelter and reek with the outcasts of Europe.
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