different between residence vs tenement

English

Etymology

From Old French residence, from Medieval Latin residentia, from resid?ns, present participle of reside?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z.?.d?ns/

Noun

residence (countable and uncountable, plural residences)

1. The place where one lives; one's home.
2. A building used as a home.
3. The place where a corporation is established.
4. The state of living in a particular place or environment.
   • 1713, The History of the Common Law of England, Sir Matthew Hale (jurist), Google Books, page 87

     The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.

5. Accommodation for students at a university or college.
6. The place where anything rests permanently.
7. subsidence, as of a sediment

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

8. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
   • 1638, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon on Gunpowder Treason

     waters of a muddy residence

9. (espionage) Synonym of rezidentura

Related terms

• reside
• residency
• resident
• residential

Translations

Further reading

• residence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• residence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• residence at OneLook Dictionary Search

Middle French

Noun

residence f (plural residences)

1. residence (place where one resides)

Old French

Alternative forms

• residance
• residense

Noun

residence f (oblique plural residences, nominative singular residence, nominative plural residences)

1. residence (place where one resides)

English

Etymology

From Middle English tenement, from Anglo-Norman tenement (“holding”), from Old French tenement, from Medieval Latin tenimentum, from Latin tene? (“hold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?n?m?nt/

Noun

tenement (plural tenements)

1. A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
   • 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter V:^[1]

     He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements.

2. (law) Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.

3. (figuratively) Dwelling; abode; habitation.
   • , Book III

Synonyms

• (building): tenement house, apartment building

Derived terms

• servient tenement

Translations

See also

• rooming house

References

• tenement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Occitan

Etymology

First attested in the 13th century, From Old Occitan [Term?], from Medieval Latin tenimentum, from Latin tene? (“hold”).

Noun

tenement m (plural tenements)

1. (Feudalism) a rural domain, manor, holdings (land)

Old French

Etymology

Medieval Latin tenementum, from Latin verb tene?. See the verb tenir.

Noun

tenement m (oblique plural tenemenz or tenementz, nominative singular tenemenz or tenementz, nominative plural tenement)

1. holding (of land)

Descendants

• ? English: tenement
• French: tènement