<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Also called tenement house.</li><li>A run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.</li><li>Law: Any species of permanent property, as lands, houses, rents, an office, or a franchise, that may be held of another.</li><li>Tenements, freehold interests in things immovable considered as subjects of property.</li><li>British: An apartment or room rented by a tenant.</li><li>Archaic: Any abode or habitation.</li></ul>