noun fig.: dwelling; abode; habitation.
2. tenement ·noun a dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.
3. tenement ·noun that which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
4. tenement ·noun any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like;
called also free / frank tenements.