Definition of tenements in English English dictionary
1 A legal word for a property or fixed asset (see dominant or servient tenement regarding easements) 2 Term for units in an aging apartment complex or building
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)
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
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
A common law real estate term that describes those real property rights of a perminant nature These rights relate to the land and pass with conveyance of the land, such as buildings and improvements
tenements
Turkish pronunciation
tenımınts
Pronunciation
/ˈtenəmənts/ /ˈtɛnəmənts/
Etymology
[ 'te-n&-m&nt ] (noun.) 14th century. Middle English, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin tenementum, from Latin tenEre to hold; more at THIN.