Crossword-Solution: TENEMENT 8 letters, 75 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Tenement n. 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.
Tenement n. 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.
Tenement n. 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.
Tenement n. Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.

We have 75 clues for the answer “TENEMENT”

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Ghetto sight 1 answer
Multiple-family dwelling 1 answer
Multiple dwelling. 1 answer
Multioccupied building 1 answer
Large residential building 1 answer
Large building divided into separate apartments 1 answer
Inner-city housing 1 answer
Inner-city dwelling 1 answer
Human hive. 1 answer
Housing that cost me $10.10 1 answer
One kind of housing. 1 answer
Flat building 1 answer
Eyesore of slums 1 answer
Dwelling in a city 1 answer
Dwelling house 1 answer
Crowded housing 1 answer
Common Lower East Side sight, once 1 answer
Civic problem. 1 answer
City living quarters 1 answer
Slum housing 1 answer
Urban apartment building, often run-down 1 answer
Type of affordable, multi-family residence 1 answer
Urban housing 1 answer
Urban home, maybe 1 answer
Urban building 1 answer
Subject of most of the photographs in Jacob Riis' "How the Other Half Lives" 1 answer
Slumlord's building 1 answer
Slumlord property 1 answer
Catfish Row in "Porgy and Bess," e.g. 1 answer
Slum dwelling 1 answer
Slum digs 1 answer
Slum building 1 answer
Self-contained room or set of rooms 1 answer
Old city housing block 1 answer
Rent-controlled building, maybe 1 answer
Place where people lived in "How the Other Half Lives" 1 answer
Overcrowded digs 1 answer
Catfish Row dwelling 1 answer
Building with flats 1 answer
Building containing several dwellings 1 answer
Backdrop for "Street Scene." 1 answer
Apartment block 1 answer
"West Side Story" building, etc. 1 answer
"West Side Story" building 1 answer
Crowded city dwelling for multiple families 1 answer
Flat spot 2 answers
Film noir setting 2 answers
Abode of a sort. 2 answers
Project, perhaps 2 answers
Urban dwelling 2 answers
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Sentences with TENEMENT (5)

Intently he listened for any sound from the nether world, but all was as silent below as above; the house under the ground seemed to be but one more empty tenement in the void.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
You do not realize that a comparatively few years ago he may have been in a tenement or (quite likely) in a jail.
The Wisdom of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1995
Their kitchen-dining-parlor apartment was more cluttered up and unaired than any city tenement I ever saw, and the thermometer at eighty-four.
Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1995
Struther’s anxious offer of companionship, and reiterating the promise that of course she would come back soon, and make George’s acquaintance, and see the baby in her bath, she passed out of the kitchen and went alone down the tenement stairs.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995

Quotes with TENEMENT (3)

She now discovered amidst them, the poet's flights of fancy, and the historian's seldom pleasing — ever instructive page. The first may transmit to posterity the records of a sublime genius, which once flashed in strong, but transient rays, through the tenement of clay it was given a moment to inhabit: and though the tenement decayed and the spirit fled, the essence of a mind which darted through the universe to cull each created and creative image to enrich an ever-varying f…
Mary Charlton The Pirate of Naples
As it is there isn't a single thing isn't an opportunity for some 'alert' person, including practically everybody by the 'greed', that, they are 'alive', therefore. Etc. That, in fact, there are 'conditions'. Gravelly Hill or any sort of situation for improvement, when the Earth was properly regarded as a 'garden tenement messuage orchard and if this is nostalgia let you take a breath of April showers let's us reason how is the dampness in your nasal passage -- but I have had…
Charles Olson The Maximus Poems
This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about his own Paps, how he beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still ste…
Justin Torres We the Animals
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 49 times in crossword archives (1951–2021).