n. 1) a term found in older deeds or in boiler-plate deed languag...

c. 1300, "holding of immovable property" (such as land or buildings,) from Anglo-French (late 13c.), Old French tenement "fief, land, possessions, property" (12c.), from Medieval L [..]

An urban dwelling made up of several apartments, often overcrowded and located in economically depressed sections of a city. Related: Jacob August Riis, Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a [..]

1) A term found in older deeds or in antiquaited deed language, referring to any structure on real property. 2) Old run-down urban apartment buildings with several floors reached by stairways.

a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards An apartment (in US English) or flat (in British English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies [..]

an adobe, a habitation, a block of buildings

[Anglo-French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin tenementum, from Latin tenēre to hold] 1 a : any of various forms of property (as land) that is held by one person from another b : an estate ...

A tenure; an interest in land which may be either "free" or "unfree" according to the services which the tenant is obliged to render in return for it.    (Hogue, Arthur R. Orig [..]

Literally “that which is held by tenure,” especially in poorer industrial towns and cities, designation for houses or other buildings leased as apartment dwellings to a number of separate tenants.

Tenement is a synonym for apartment, but the term often is usually associated with low-income housing in an urban area.  

A tenement is a term found in older deeds or in boiler-plate deed language which refers to any structure on real property.

(n) a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards

n. 1) a term found in older deeds or in boiler-plate deed language which means any structure on real property. 2) old run-down urban apartment buildings with several floors reached by stairways.

A parcel of land.

The word is little used today, except as a specialized legal term restricted to certain situations. Essentially it means no more than a piece of real estate that was subject to tenure (being held unde [..]

– originally any rented property. Later a term to describe the holdings of yeomen and husbandmen, which were smaller than farms but larger than the properties of cottagers.