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Tenement House

Definition: Tenement House

Tenement House

Noun

1. A rundown apartment house barely meeting minimal standards.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Tenement House

DomainDefinitions

Business

Real property from which the owner derives income by letting it to third parties. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Tenement House

Synonym: tenement (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Tenement House

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

House, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in urbe, folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court, manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace; kiosk, bungalow; casa, country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement house; temple.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Tenement House

English words defined with "tenement house": To make one's self at home. (references)

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Photo Album: Tenement House

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[A view of a tenement house yard].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

End of the poor Funeral from a tenement house in Baxter Street, Five Points, New York / / from a sketch by our artist.Credit: Library of Congress.

A tenement house in Mulberry Street / C.A. Vanderh[..]f. Inspection of fruit in New York markets, by order of the Board of Health / drawn by R. Lewis.Credit: Library of Congress.

Exterior of tenement house, New York City.Credit: Library of Congress.

Interior of tenement house, New York City.Credit: Library of Congress.

New York City, interior of tenement house.Credit: Library of Congress.

Court of tenement house, New York City.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tenement House

Language Translations for "tenement house"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

banesë shumëkatshe (tenement). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

жилищен дом с евтини квартири (tenement). (various references)

   

Czech

  

èinžovní dùm (apartment house, tenement), èinžák (tenement). (various references)

   

Danish

  

udlejningsejendom (leased property, leasehold house, rental building), ejendom til udleje (leased property, leasehold house, rental building). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

verhuurd of verpacht onroerend goed (leased property, leasehold house, rental building), huurhuis (hired house, house to let, leased property, leasehold house, rental building, rented house). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vuokrakiinteistö (leased property, leasehold house, rental building). (various references)

   

French

  

immeuble locatif, immeuble donné en location, immeuble de rapport. (various references)

   

German

  

Zinsgrundstück (leased property, leasehold house, property, rental building), Miethaus (leased property, leasehold house, rental building), Ertragshaus (leased property, leasehold house, rental building). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προσοδοφόρο ακίνητο (leased property, leasehold house, rental building), φθηνή πολυκατοικία. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bérház (apartment house, block of flats, land). (various references)

   

Italian

  

immobili a reddito (leased property, leasehold house, rental building), casa d'affitto (leased property, leasehold house, rental building). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enementtay ousehay

   

Portuguese

  

imóvel de rendimento (leased property, leasehold house, rental building), casa para alugar (house trailer). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

bloc de locuinţe închiriate. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

многоквартирный дом (apartment house, mansions). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

oronula stambena zgrada (tenement). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hyreshus (apartment house, mansion, mansions). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kiralık ucuz ev. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Tenement House

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-h-m-n-n-o-s-t-t-u"

-4 letters: menthenes, tenements.

-5 letters: ententes, housemen, huntsmen, hutments, menthene, stuntmen, tenement, umteenth.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tenement House


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 65 6E 65 6D 65 6E 74      48 6F 75 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100101 01101110 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01001000 01101111 01110101 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#32 &#72 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 006E 0065 006D 0065 006E 0074      0048 006F 0075 0073 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

547180717971808624281878571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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