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ten·e·ment

(tĕn′ə-mənt)

1. A building for human habitation, especially one that is rented to tenants.

2. A rundown, low-rental apartment building whose facilities and maintenance barely meet minimum standards.

3. Chiefly British An apartment or room leased to a tenant.

4. Law A property of a permanent nature that is possessed or owned, such as land or a building, along with the rights associated with such possession or ownership.

[Middle English, house, from Old French, from Medieval Latin tenēmentum, from Latin tenēre, to hold; see ten- in Indo-European roots.]

ten′e·men′tal (-mĕn′tl) adj.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

tenement

(ˈtɛnəmənt)

1. (Human Geography) Also called: tenement building (now esp in Scotland) a large building divided into separate flats

2. a dwelling place or residence, esp one intended for rent

3. chiefly Brit a room or flat for rent

4. (Law) property law any form of permanent property, such as land, dwellings, offices, etc

[C14: from Medieval Latin tenementum, from Latin tenēre to hold]

tenemental, ˌteneˈmentary adj

ˈteneˌmented adj

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ten•e•ment

(ˈtɛn ə mənt)

n.

1. Also called ten′ement house`. a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, esp. in a poor section of a large city.

2. Law. property of a permanent or fixed nature, whether corporeal or incorporeal, as lands or rent.

3. Archaic. any abode or habitation.

[1250–1300; Middle English < Medieval Latin tenēmentum= Latin tenē(re) to hold + -mentum -ment]

tenement

- First meant "holding as a possession."

tenement

[ˈtenɪmənt]

A. N → vivienda f (Scot) (= flat) → piso m (Sp), departamento m (LAm)

B. CPD tenement block N → bloque m de pisos (Sp), bloque m de departamentos (LAm)
tenement house N → casa f de vecinos, casa f de vecindad

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

tenement

[ˈtɛnəmənt] n

(also tenement building, tenement block) → immeuble m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

tenement

(also tenement house) → Mietshaus nt, → Mietskaserne f (pej)

(Jur) → Mietbesitz m; (= farm) → Pachtbesitz m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

tenement

[ˈtɛnɪmənt] n → casamento

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Apart from the size of the cast, the most difficult aspect of the play is the stark juxtapositon between the first act, full of the realistic bustle of Dublin tenament life familiar from O'Casey's earlier plays, with the second - an apocalyptic vision of the Western Front influenced by Expressionism, in which none of the characters introduced in the first act appears.

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