tenement
/ˈtɛnəmənt/
noun
- A large building divided into many small apartments, especially in a poor or crowded part of a city.
- The old tenement had narrow hallways and small windows.
- They renovated the tenement into modern apartments with better plumbing.
- Many immigrants lived in crowded tenements in the early 1900s.
- A room or set of rooms rented as a home; an apartment.
- The landlord owns several tenements in the neighborhood.
- His first home in the city was a tiny tenement with a shared bathroom.
- She rented a small tenement on the third floor.