Brazilian Portugese Meaning of tenement

cortiço

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Definitions and Meaning of tenement in English

Wordnet

tenement (n)

a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards

Webster

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.

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.

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.

Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.

FAQs About the word tenement

cortiço

a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standardsThat which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in conside

apartamento,Penthouse,Apartamento,escavações,escavações,plano,alojamentos,estúdio,suíte,prédio de apartamentos

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tenebrous => tenebroso, tenebrosity => escuridão, tenebrose => tenebroso, tenebrious => tenebroso, tenebrionid => Tenebrionídeos,