tenement

Definitions


[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:
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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