apartment complex. high-rise apartment building. living quarters.

What is an example of tenement?

The definition of a tenement is a run-down or dilapidated apartment building. An apartment building that has boarded up windows, leaky plumbing and barely-working heating is an example of a tenement.

How would you describe a tenement?

a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city. ... any species of permanent property, as lands, houses, rents, an office, or a franchise, that may be held of another.