noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tenement block (= an apartment block, usually in a poor area - used especially in Scotland )
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We had a tiny flat in an Edinburgh tenement block.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
block
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Although different, I wanted to capture something of the sensation of being high up in a tenement block overlooking London.
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On the left is the first tenement block to be built in Prague in 1813-47 and designed by J. Hausknecht.
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She lived in a big old tenement block .
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Flashback to 30 March 1968: two kids playing in a deserted tenement block discover a corpse.
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It was on the top floor of one of those grim tenement blocks .
building
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One result was a considerable amount of low-cost tenement building by philanthropic associations in the cities from the early 1880s.
house
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He found himself walking slowly through narrow and murky slum streets flanked by tall tenement houses .
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An urchin showed her which tenement house was his.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I still officially resided in four tiny rooms on the first floor of a West Village tenement .
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In her tenement there lived a rich man.
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Old powdery tenements fell to the ground.
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One result was a considerable amount of low-cost tenement building by philanthropic associations in the cities from the early 1880s.
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She lived in a red-brick tenement in Chelsea, an old walk-up building with gloomy stairwells and peeling paint on the walls.
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The home was not for most a country house or a cottage, but a town villa or tenement .
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The houses in the suburbs have wonderful amenities, unlike the overcrowded tenements of places like Hoboken.
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These tenements are barely fit to live among, never mind to starve in, for want of the extra rent.