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tenement
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[ˈtɛnɪm(ə)nt], (Noun)
Definitions:
- (especially in Scotland or the US) a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of flats
- a piece of land held by an owner
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Origin
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Middle English (in the sense ‘tenure, property held by tenure’): via Old French from medieval Latin tenementum, from tenere ‘to hold’
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