different between tenement vs dwelling

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.
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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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dw?.l??/
• Rhymes: -?l??

Etymology 1

From Middle English dwelling, duelling (“delay, continuance, abode”). More at dwell.

Noun

dwelling (plural dwellings)

1. A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:abode

Derived terms

• dwellinghouse, dwelling house
• dwelling-place
• lake dwelling (“prehistoric structure”)

Translations

References

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

Etymology 2

From dwell +? -ing.

Verb

dwelling

1. present participle of dwell