Dictionary Entry
tenement
tenement is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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 / frank tenements.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.
- 5noun
a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
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